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E INDEPENDENT 
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Clinton’s ratings rise as Baghda 
smoulders and Washington i 




BY ANDREW MARSHALL 

and Mary Dejevsky 
in Washington 

THE SHAME of impeachment 
now a reality; President Bill 
> Clinton was still riding high yes- 
terday celebrating renewed pub- 
lic approval at home and 
claiming victory over Iraq 
abroad. Defying the odds yet 
again, America's master of sur- 
vival saw his poll rating rise and 
his name again in lights as Time 
magazine's “man of the year 1 '. 

With a trial in the Sena te like- 
ly eartym the new year however: 
and fears that calls for his res- 
ignation might multiply, any re- 
joicing seemed premature, and 
Mr Clinton-only the second US 
President to be impeached - 
kept a tow profile after a frenetic 
week during which he had been 
at the centre of two major crises: 
impeachment and Iraq. 

^ He attended church with his 
daughter Chelsea, but with- 
out the First Lady and made no 
response to bands of rival heck- 
lers shouting outside the 
church steps. 

His personal sense of vindi- 
cation at the Time magazine 
award might also have been 
soured by his having to share 
the honour with the man who 
had brought about his humili- 
ation in the Lewinsky affair the 
independent prosecutor Ken- 
neth Start 

Word emerging from the 
White House suggested a Pres- 
ident more contrite and hesi- 
tant than the public statements 
of the previous day had indi- 
cated. His determination to re- 
main at his post “until the last 
hour of the last day of my term" 
was reportedly tempered by pri- 
vate words of remorse for the 
predicament that his behaviour 
had presented to Democrats in 
Congress. They had raced to 

White House immediately 
after the vote in a bizarre pro- 
cession of buses and cars to ex- 
press their support and 
surrounded him on the White 
House lawn for his statement. 

The Republicans, who had 
fought so long to make Mr 
Clinton feel his own pain for the 
Lewinsky affair: app^red to be 
retreating just a little from 
their refusal to compromise. 
Senior senators said yester- 
day that a Senate trial - which 
is now required under the con- 
stitution - could last just a few 
?teeks. Some had earlier fore- 
5.st protracted and sordid pro- 
ceedings that could paralyse 
the administration for months. 



The new issue of Tune’, 
featuring President Bill 
Clinton as *man of the year’ 

A short trial could be part of 
the compromise for which the 
White House is now striving be- 
hind the scenes. Its desire to 
save Mr Clinton the indignity of 
a trial at all. however: is com- 
plicated by the insistence of the 
Senate Majority leaden Trent 
Lott that he will make no deals. 

Mr Clinton’s uncanny ability 
to escape even the tightest cor- 
ners could still afiect the out- 
come, though. An NBC poll 
taken immediately after the 
impeachment votes showed 
that public support for the Pres- 
ident had actually increased 
by four points - from 68 to 72 per 
cent And some Republicans ex- 
pressed concern about the ef- 
fect an unpopular trial could 
have on their fortunes. 

“I do think that the leader- 
ship has to do a hard count" 
said Republican Senator Orrin 
Hatch, “to determine whether 
to move ahead with a triaL” And 
another Republican. Mitch Mc- 
Connell, said that there was 
nothing that stipulated all the 
evidence had to be heard in 
public. The more salacious tes- 
timony, he indicated, could be 
given in camera. “This will not 
be a spectacle,” he said “It will 
not demean the Senate." 

Even as President Clinton 
emerged remarkably intact 
from the impeachment debate, 
his enemy across the other 
side of the world, Saddam Hus- 
sein, also proclaimed victory. 
After four days of air strikes, 
Britain and America ended 
their campaign on Saturday 
night with simultaneous an- 
nouncements by Tbny Blair 
and Mr Clinton. 

President Saddam lauded 
his countrymen in a speech yes- 
terday, saying that they had de- 
feated Britain and America. 
“You were up to the level that 
your leadership and your broth- 



President Bill Clinton and his daughter. Chelsea, leaving tbe United Foundry Methodist Church in Washington after the service yesterday William Philpotti Reuters 


er and comrade Saddam Hus- 
sein had hoped you would be ... 
so God rewarded you and de- 
lighted your hearts with the 
crown of victory," he said in a 
taped address. 

“God wanted this to be an ho- 
nour and glory for you ... and 
shame and humiliation ... to 
those who carried it toe ene- 
mies of God and humanity.” 


But Iraq say's thousands 
have been killed or wounded. 
“There has been enormous 
damage, mainly to the civilian 
infrastructure and to human 
life," said NIzar Hamdoon, 
Iraq’s ambassador to the Unit- 
ed Nations. “I am told the ca- 
sualties are in thousands, in 
terms of people who were tolled 
or wounded, but we don't have 



US set for the trial of the century page 3 
The presidents who were Impeached page 4 
Americans' sympathy for Clinton page 5 


Allies plot downfall of Saddam 


page 6 


any final figures.” He did not say 
how many of tbe casualties 
were military and how many 
civilian. 

Mr Clinton laid out the ele- 
ments of a containment strate- 
gy towards Iraq on Saturday 
night which was repeated by 
Mr Blair yesterday. It involves 
the continuing threat of military 
strikes, the maintenance of 
sanctions and a continued effort 
to prevent Iraq from developing 
weapons of mass destruction. 
Discussions will begin this week 
'm New York to see if the UN spe- 
cial commission on Iraqi 
weapons can be reconstituted 
The US will not hesitate to take 
military action if Iraq threatens 
its neighbours or is seen to be 
developing weapons of mass de- 


struction, Madeleine Albright, 
the US Secretary of State, said 
yesterday. “We reserve the right 
to use force again." 

Both Mr Blair and Mr Clin- 
ton laid a heavy emphasis on 
preparing the ground for life 
after Saddam. Mr Clinton ap- 
peared to hint that some other 
group was waiting in the wings 
“We will stand ready to help a 
new leadership in Baghdad that 
abides by its international com- 
mitments and respects the 
rights of its own people.” he said 
late on Saturday, “^fehqpe it wBl 
return Iraq to its rightful place 
in the community of nations." 

The last night of strikes fo- 
cused on tbe Republican 
Guard, the elite units most 
loyal to President Saddam. 


There were unsubstantiated 
rumours in Washington of mil- 
itary activity in southern Iraq, 
including clashes between sol- 
diers and rebels. The Iraqi op- 
position reported that before 


toe US and Britain mounted air 
strikes, an uprising was under 
way by the Shiite community of 
southern Iraq, but in toe past 
such reports and such uprisings 
have usually come to nothing. 


Blair sends carrier to the Gulf 


BRITAIN IS sending HMS In- 
vincible to the Gulf as part of a 
□ew strategy to keep Saddam 
Hussein firmly 'tin his cage". 
Ibny Blair announced yesterday 

The Prime Minister warned 
-ihat Britain and the United 
States were ready to launch 
more bombing raids'on Iraq. 
“Our forces will remain ready 
to strike if necessary, if he again 
poses a threat to his neighbours 
or develops weapons of mass 
destruction," he said. 

British ministers claimed 
the four-day Operation Desert 
Ftax, which was called offlate on 
Saturday, had set back Presi- 
dent Saddam’s military capa- 
bilities by at least a year. 

Mr Blair sought to head off 
criticism that the military 
strikes were pointless because 


by Andrew Grice 
Political Editor 

President Saddam remained in 
power. iJust because we can’t 
get in toe cage and strike him 
down, it doesn't mean we 
should leave the cage un- 
touched and the bars too frag- 
ile to hold him. What we have 
done is put him back firmly in 
the cage. He is weaker and 
therefore the region is 
stronger." 

Hinting at the mounting of 

further operations in the world's 
troublespots. Mr Blair detected 
“the first stirrings crfa new glob- 
al reality” in which force was 
used to maintain peace. “The 
sooner and quickeryou act tlie 
easier it is to act and the less 
costly it is in terms of life, ex- 


pense and diplomacy " he said. 

The Prime Minister hit back 
at criticism that President Bill 
Clinton had attacked Iraq in an 
attempt to prevent his im- 
peachment, and suggestions 
that he was “Clinton's poodle". 
“I would never; ever commit 
British servicemen and women 
unless I thought it necessary." 

But Lord Healey the former 
Labour defence secretary, 
warned that Mr Blair's actions 
had done him “no good”, and 
had enormously weakened 
Britain’s influence In Russia 
and China, the Middle East 
and European Union. 

General Sir Peter de la Bfl- 
fiere, who commanded Britain's 
forces in the 1990-91 Gulf War; 
warned that the latest aerial at- 
tacks would strengthen Presi- 


dent Saddam’s position in 
Iraq.“You cannot bomb people 
into submission; it tends to make 
them defiant I think there is a 
considerable risk this will hap- 
pen. not just in Iraq but across 
the Islamic world.” he told 
BBCl’s Breakfast With Frost. 

The Opposition, which sup- 
ported Operation Desert Pox 
last week, cast doubt over Mr 
Blair's actions last night, call- 
ing on him to spell out his fu- 
ture strategy. “We must not now 
allow a policy vacuum to de- 
velop,” said Michael Howard, 
the Shadow Foreign Secretary. 

RAFTbrnadoes in Kuwait will 
remain on “high alert” until 
HMS Invincible arrives in the 
Gulf next month. George 
Robertson, the Secretary of 
State for Defence, said; “It is a 


big signal: we are not going 
away, we remain vigilant" The 
“floating fortress” can mount air 
and land attacks, ami carries up 
to 24 aircraft - usually a mix of 
Sea Harrier FA2 fighters, RAF 
Harrier GR7 bombers and Sea 
King helicopters. It has a crew 
of 1.200 men and women. 

This “containment" of Pres- 
ident Saddam forms the first 
plank in a four-point plan out- 
lined by Mr Blair yesterday. 
The second is to make the trade 
sanctions against Iraq more rig- 
orous - inducting reinforced op- 
erations in the Gulf to intercept 
suspect traffic. 

The Prime Minister called 
for a “more effective arrange- 
ment" than the deal allowing 
President Saddam to sell oil to 
buy food and medicines, so it 


was less susceptible to poor 
performance by the Iraqi au- 
thorities or manipulation by 
the President for his own ends. 

Part three is a diplomatic of- 
fensive to bring about “stabili- 
ty” in relations between Iraq 
and the international commu- 
nity. British ministers, led by Mr 
Blair and Robin Cook, the For- 
eign Secretary, will hold urgent 
talks with Middle East and EU 
states and UN Security Coun- 
cil members. 

Finally, the Prime Minister 

caGed for an “effective inspection 
and monitoring regime". But 
he admitted that the Unscom in- 
spection team could not return 
for the same “cat and mouse” 
game and the same recurring 
crises. “We would need a new 
and better regime" he said. 


INSIDE THIS SECTION 


Toddler missing 

Police search for a girt 
aged two after mother is 
found stabbed to death 

Home P9 

■>$£fcerble frustration 

Vfctim’s brother speaks 
out over suspects’ trial 

Home PIO 


Italian jobs 

Expatriate lecturers 
find an unfair world in 
Italy’s universities 

Foreign PI 4 

Chinese justice 

One dissident goes to 
trial as another is exiled 

Foreign PI 5 


insurers' £2.7bn deal 

Australian insurance 
group AMP clinches 
deal to buy NPI 

Business PI 6 

Gunners' victory 

Arsenal strike winning 
form to beat Leeds 3-1 
Sport P28 


CUKT0N .2-5. IRAQ 6-7. NEWS 9-15. BUSINESS 16-19, SPURT 20-28. CROSSWORD 28, WEATHER 2 




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Steve Richards 
Do we have the 
politicians we deserve? 

Comment P3 

Andreas Whittam Smkh 

Why Britain and Europe 
will never agree about 
the conflict in Iraq 

Comment PA 


John Walsh 

Shopping for Barbie and 
bombing Baghdad 
Comment P5 

Under holy orders 

A mother remembers 
the day her daughter 
became a nun 
Features PS 


King of comedy 

Johnny Vegas gets his 
own television show 

Arts P9 

Dancing to DNA 

Darwin and toe DJs - 
the most unlikely mix 
in dubland 

Network P1 1 



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THE IMPEACHMENT OF A PRESIDENT 


THE INDEPENDENT 
Monday 21 December 1998 


‘You did lie and obstructed justice’ 



Political Capital Punishment 


WHEN - as now looks likely - 
President Bill Clinton stands 
trial in the Senate, it is the two 
Articles of Impeachment that 
were approved by the House of 
Representatives on Saturday 
that will constitute the indict- 
ment For him to be removed 
from office, the 100 Senators 
who will make up the jury must 
be convinced that the charges 
are proved, and that they are 
sufficiently severe to warrant 
“political capital punishment”. 
Lawyers for Mr Clinton have 
maintained that they are not 
worthy of conviction on either 
count 

The first Article accuses Mr 
Clinton of providing “peijurious, 
false and misleading testimo- 
ny" to a grand jury on four 
themes, including the nature of 
his relationship with Monica 
Lewinsky. The second accuses 
him of trying to obstruct the 
course of justice in seven areas, 
including encouraging Ms 
Lewinsky to sign a false affi- 
davit denying a sexual rela- 
tionship with him, trying to 
hide evidence of their relation- 
ship (by having his presents 
concealed > and misleading 
members of his staff about his 
relationship in the expectation 
that they would unwittingly 
give false evidence to the grand 
jury in the Lewinsky case. 

What these charges do not 
encompass is the biggest and 
most memorable “whopper" 
Mr Clinton told: his finger-wag- 
ging January statement for the 
cameras when he insisted: “I 
did not have sexual relations 
with that woman. Ms Lewin- 
sky." Lying so blatantly to the 
electorate might be thought a 
matter for resignation, but it is 
not part of the indictment 
against him, and is not re- 


By Mary Dejevsky 
in Washington 


garded as “impeachable”. This 
would be one for the electorate 
to judge, not for the House or 
the Senate. 

The two articles of im- 
peachment are more technical, 
and relate exclusively either to 
evidence that Mr Clinton gave 
under oath or to events that 
could relate specifically to the 
realm of legality - chiefly the 
lawsuit brought by Paula Jones. 

Anyone who has viewed Mr 
Clinton's grand jmy testimony, 
which was shown on nationwide 
television in September; or the 
video-clips from his testimony 
in the Paula Jones sexual ha- 
rassment suit, and compared 
them with the sworn testimo- 
ny of Ms Lewinsky and others 
recorded by the independent 
prosecutor, Kenneth Starr, can 
be in little doubt that Mr Clin- 
ton was less than truthful One 
question for the “juiy” will be 
whether he crossed the line 
from reticence to perjury. 

As time has gone by his 
lawyers have become increas- 
ingly frank about the extent of 
his culpability. Most recently, 
Gregory Craig, the White 
House special counsel, admit- 
ted that his replies were “eva- 
sive, incomplete, misleading, 
even maddening", but “not 
perjury". 

The chief White House coun- 
sel, Charles Ruff, came dose to 
admitting that a jury might be 
inclined to convict him of 
perjury, when he said that “rea- 
sonable people'' might con- 
clude that he had lied under 
oath (though Mr Ruff tried to 
prove that he had not). 

The Clinton lawyers' case is 
that Mr Clinton never told a 


straight lie under oath. Mr Clin- 
ton himself said that he had 
been “not particularly helpful” 
and “blamed” the prosecutors 
for not being persistent enough 
in their questioning. The tapes 
and transcripts show, however; 
that the prosecutors did persist 
but Mr Clinton persisted too - 
In being vague and forgetful. 
This makes they* erf the “pros- 
ecution” extremely difficult (as 
it was intended to do) . 

During the House judiciary 
committee hearings and the fall 
House debate, senior Democ- 
rats challenged the Republi- 
cans to produce examples of 
any sentence by Mr Clinton that 
was a lie. The lawyers among 
them argued that without 
words that were demonstrably 
false, the perjury charges 
would faiL 

The farther problem for the 
“prosecution" is whether the in- 
stances of lies and obstruction 
of justice, even if they can be 
proved beyond “reasonable” 
doubt, are serious enough to 
qualify as the “high crimes and 
misdemeanours” the Consti- 
tution defines as impeachable. 

The view of Democrats and 
Mr Ctintorfs lawyers is that they 
do not, because they stem ini- 
tially from an attempt to cover 
up an adulterous affair which 
was personal and private. 

The Republican argument is 
that the effect would have been 
to deprive Paula Jones of her 
right to a fair hearing of her sex- 
ual harassment case, so they 
have judicial significance. They 
argue additionally that the oath 
of office requires the Presi- 
dent, as the country's chief law 
officer; to uphold the law and 
any breach of the law is there- 
fore a violation of his oath -and 
impeachable. 





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Henry Hyde, right. Chair of the House judiciary committee gives the articles of impeachment to Gary Sisco, Secretary of the Senate AP 


The articles of Impeachment 


x. 


These are edited, texts of the 
two articles of impeachment 
voted against President BUI 
Clinton by the House qf Rep- 
resentatives on Saturday: 


Article I 

In his conduct while President 
of the United States, William 
Jefferson Clinton, in violation 
of his constitutional oath faith- 
fully to execute the office of 
President of the United States 
and. to the best of his ability, 
preserve, protect and defend 
the Constitution [of the US], 


and in violation of his consti- 
tutional duty to take care that 
the laws be faithfully execut- 
ed, has willfully corrupted and 
marifpiilatofl the judicial pro- 
cess of the United States for 
his personal gain and exoner- 
ation, impeding the adminis- 
tration of justice, in that: 

On 17 August 1998, William 
Jefferson Clinton swore to tell 
the truth, the whole truth and 
nothing but the truth before a 
Federal grand jury of the Unit- 
ed States. Contrary to that 
oath, [he] willfully provided 


peijurious, false and mislead- 
ing testimony to the grand 
jury concerning one or more 
of tiie following: ( 1 ) the nature 
and of his relationship 
with a subordinate Govern- 
ment employee; (2) prior per- 
jurious, false and misleading 
testimony he gave in a Feder- 
al civil rights action brought 
against him; (3) prior false and 
misleading statements he al- 
lowed his attorney to make to 
a Federal judge in that civil 
rights action: and (4) his cor- 
rupt efforts to influence the 


testimony of witnesses and to 
impede the discovery of evi- 
dence in that civil rights action. 

In doing this, [he] has un- 
dermined the integrity of his 
office, brought disrepute on 
the Presidency betrayed his 
trust as President, and acted 
in a manner subversive of the 
rule of law and justice... 


Article III 

In his conduct ... [he] has 
presented, obstructed and im- 
peded the administration of 
justice and has to that end en- 


gaged personally and through 
his subordinates and agents, 
in a course of conduct or 
scheme designed to delay im- 
pede, cover up and conceal the 
existence of evidence and tes- 
timony related to a Federal 
civil rights action brought 
against him in a duly institut- 
ed judicial proceeding.. . 

[He]... warrants impeach- 
ment and trial, and removal 
from office and disqualification 
to bold and enjoy any office of 
honour, trust or profit under 
the United States. 


BRITAIN TODAY 


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FORECAST 

General situation: A very cold and frMty Mat. The south-east will have sunny 
spells, bur rain will move across cowards evening. Nortnem England. Wales and 
south-west England will have a spell of rain with snow for a time over the more 
northern hills. Northern Ireland will start wet and windy, the ram clearing to sunny 
spells and scattered showers. Western coasts of Scotland will have ram. clearing Co 
showers. Elsewhere in Scotland there will be some sleet and snow, turning to rain 
at lower levels. 


|SE England. London, E AngBa, E England: Very cold and frosty, but bright this 
[morning, team moving across from the west this afternoon. A fight to moderate 
westerly wind Max temp 2-5C 136-41 FJ- 


laianoel Is, Cent S England, Midlands: Some early frost, then clouding over to 
Ibnng rain this afternoon. A moderate south-west wind. Man temp 3-6C (37-43F). 


SIM A NW England, Wales, Cam H England, Lake 0 1st, Isle of Man: Ram 
soon breaking out and spreading east. Some snow for a time over the hills. A fresh 
south re south-west wind. Max temp 3-6C (37-43F). 


NE England: Star ting bright but frosty. Rain will spread from the west with the 
rtsK of snow on hills. A moderate south-west wind. Max temp 2-4C (36-39F). 

5W & N1M Scotland, Glasgow. W Isles: Ram turning to snow on hills, dearln 
sunshine and showers. A fresh to strong south to south- 1 
(36-4 IF). 


west wind. Max temp tsc 


5E * ME Scotland, Edinburgh. Aberdeen. N Isles; Frost then rain 

wsr With snow on hills. A fresh south re south-west wind. Max temp 1-4C (34-59FJ. 
N Ireland: Wet and windy wim sleet and snow on the hills, clearing to sunshine 
and showers. A fresh south-west wind. Max temp 4-6C (39-43F). 


OUTLOOK 

[Tuesday will begin cold. Rain will move Into the west, crossing to eastern parts 
Iduring the evening. Wednesday will be slightly milder than recencry with showers 
HP 016 nortn and west, but a few sunny breaks In the east. Early indications are 
for a mild Christmas. 


-.1 LIGHTING UP 

Belfast 

3.59pm 

to 8.45am 

Blrmlnghani 

3.55pm 

to 8.16am 

Bristol 

4.03pm 

to 3.14am 

Glasgow 

3.44pm 

to 8.46am 

London 

3.54pm 

to 8.04am 

Manchester 

3.51pm 

to 8J3am 

Newcastle 

3.39pm 

to 8.30am 

HIGH TIDES 


AM HT 

PM HT 

AMmMath 

8.27 12.9 

8.4.5 12.7 

Cork 

6.51 4.4 

7.07 4.3 

Devooftort 

7.05 5.4 

7.25 5.2 

Doner 

12.03 6.5 

12.15 6.4 

Don Laogjhahe 12.36 3.8 

12.47 4.0 

Falmouth 

6.36 5.2 

6.56 5.0 

Greenock 

1.33 3J 

2.00 3.5 

Harwrich 

12.51 3.9 

1.14 3.9 

Hotytwad 

11.37 5.6 

11.58 5.3 

Hull (Albert Dkl 7.36 8.3 

7.46 8.5 

Nogs Lynn 

7.40 6.3 

7.49 6.6 

Leith 

3.57 5.3 

4.09 5.4 

Liverpool 

12.13 9.0 

12.30 92 

MOfoRlHamm 

7.28 6.7 

7.45 6.5 

Newquay 

6.19 6.7 

6.36 6.6 

Portland 

8.13 2.1 

839 1.9 

Portsmouth 

12.31 4.5 

1236 4.6 

PwBbefi 

9.18 4.7 

935 4.6 

Searboroqgh 

5.24 5.5 

537 5.7 

Wick 

12.27 3.4 

12.36 3.5 

Height measured in metres 


AIR 

QUALITY I 

I Today's readings 1 


NO, 

S€h 

Loodon 

Moderate Good 

S England 

Moderate Good 

Wales 

Good 

Good 

C England 

Good 

Good 

N England 

Good 

Good 

Scotland 

Good 

Good 

N Ireland 

Good 

Good 

SUN 

A MOON 

Sun rises: 08.04 m 


Sunsets: 15.54 n 


Moon rises: 09.38 ^ 




First quarter Dec 26th 

WEATHERLINE 

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and contraflow. UntD 3lst December. 

3ud*whamshire: M40 between kncttreia 

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broe. Una 1st January 1999. 

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Clinton, backed by Hillary Clinton, vice president A1 Gore and chief of staff John Podesta, pauses during his statement on Saturday Reuters 


AFTERA five-day helter-skelter 
of events that had pushed and 
jostled and raced each other into 
the news, political Washington 
was finally able to sit back yes- 
terday take a breath and con- 
sider the significance of what 
had happened. 

The President bad been im- 
peached for only the second 
time in US history. The De- 
mocrats were united f almost) in 
defiant support of their leader; 
the Republicans were fending off 
meltdown for the second time 
jii as many months. The 
volitical establishment was bit- 
terly divided, and so was the 
country. 

Even as Washington tried to 
relax, however, two competing 
developments were already in 
brain. The methodical consti- 
tutional process was taking its 
course, preparing the way for 
the Senate trial that is the next 
and final stage of Mr Clinton’s 
disgrace. And from the White 
House came the sounds of anx- 
ious wheeler-dealing in a last- 
— ’ ^jeh attempt to fend off the 
final - and irreversible - stage 


By Mary dejevsky 
in Washington 

of impeachment the removal 
from office of the country's 
42nd President, Bill Clinton. 

Within an hour of Saturday’s 
impeachment votes, the House 
of Representatives had ap- 
pointed nine managers to over- 
see the charges against Mr 
Clinton, and they had physically 
carried the two approved arti- 
cles of impeachment across 
the Capitol Rotunda to the Sen- 
ate. The House thus complet- 
ed its role in the impeachment 
of the President According to 
the constitution, the Senate is 
now obliged to hold a trial. 

Less than two hours later, 
Mr Clinton, arm in arm with his 
wife, Hillary, appeared in the 
White House rose garden to hail 
the support of a crowd of House 
Democrats and insist that he 
would work no the last hour of 
the last day of my term”. He 
was flanked by his Vice-Presi- 
dent, the still-wooden A1 Gore, 
his almost cadaverously lean 
chief of staff, John Podesta, and 


the washed and brushed House 
minority leader Dick Gephardt 
an ensemble of solidarity that 
may or may not stand by him 
in the weeks to come. 

Mrs Clinton, wearing an un- 
derstated black trousersuit 
had on her lapel the brooch that 
she had worn for her television 
interview back in January, 
when she had defended her 
husband and blamed a “vast 
right-wing conspiracy” for his 
troubles. 

The golden eagle, holding a 
pearl in its talons, had become 
a tacit symbol among Democ- 
ratic women of their support of 
the President Fbr Mrs Clinton 
to wear it on Saturday was to 
state that the Clintons were 
fighting on. 

Mr Clinton indicated one di- 
rection of that fight when he 
said that he hoped for a ^con- 
stitutional and foir means of re- 
solving this matter in a prompt 
manner”. In other words, he was 
looking fbr a deal. The White 
House is said to have put out 
feelers across the political es- 
tablishment in an attempt to find 


any solution that would stave off 
a Senate triaL 

In the three weeks before his 
impeachment at the hands of a 
fractious and combative House, 
the White House had started to 
sue for peace. They had spoken 
of compromise and deals, and 
on the day before the vote, Mrs 
Clinton - in a rare recent in- 
tervention - had called for rec- 
onciliation. 

The thrust of the Democrats' 
arguments, such as they were 
in the two-day House debate, 
also tended towards compro- 
mise, culminating in Mr 
Gephardt’s eloquent, but frus- 
trated plea for censure, rather 
than impeachment, in the last 
minutes of the debate. 

In the rose garden ton there 
was talk of olive branches and 
healing. Such pleas were not the 
strongest suit for the Democ- 
rats to present in the debate, but 
they might have a chance. 

Some Republicans are be- 
lieved to have voted for im- 
peachment secure in the 
knowledge it was an indictment 
rather than a conviction and Mr 


Judge with impeccable 
reactionary credentials 

..•aw V/ 


CHIEF JUSTICE REHNOUIST 


By Rupert Cornwell 

TO SPEAK erf “Nixon’s revenge” 
would be going a mite too fax; 
But assuming President Clin- 
ton does undergo a full im- 
peachment trial in the Senate 
early next year, the black- 
gowned presence of William 
Hubbs Rehnquist as judge and 
supreme arbitrator of his fate, 
symbolise how, in the span 
*• ■ .a quartercentuiy, US potties 
has gone full circle. 

Rehnquist was nominated to 
America’s highest court by 
Richard Nixon in 1971 and, 
after stormy confirmation 
hearings, took his seat in Jan- 
uary 1972. Two and a half years 
later a Republican President 
with a rare capacity to inspire 
hatred among his political op- 
ponents was forced to resign in 
face of certain impeachment by 
a Democrat-controlled Con- 
gress. Playing a modest but not 
insignificant part in proceed- 
ings was a young staff member 
era the Watergate committee 
,$ned Hillary Rodham, later 
Clinton. 

As the country braces for the 
first impeachment trial of a 
President since 1968, roles 
have been uneannily reversed. 
Nison’s conservative appointee 
is now Chief Justice of the 
United States, the man who will 
act as judge to the jury of 100 
senators. 

This time it will be a Demo- 
cratic President at odds with a 
Republican Congress - but a 
President who, like Nixon, con- 
trives to inspire an almost ir- 
rational loathing among many 
of his political foes. Where 
Nixon saw a left-liberal plot 
against him, Rehnquist could 
be depicted as part of the so- 
called “right-wing conspiracy” 
to unseat Bill Clinton. 

There are of course dissim- 
ilarities - most striking the 
co i jSbst between the biparti- 
. .^nfhip over Nixon which 
showed the American political 
process at its finest, and 



William Hubbs Rehnquist: Unwavering conservative 


today's vicious partisan brawl- 
ing which threatens to make 
that process unworkable. One 
thing however may be said 
with confidence: there could 
not be a Chief Justice that 
Hillazy Clinton would less tike 
to see in charge of the trial of 
her wayward husband than 
the 74-year-old William Rehn- 
quist. 

For one thing he is an un- 
wavering conservative. From 
his days as a Goldwater Re- 
publican practising law in Ari- 
zona, through his spell as head 
of the crucially important 
Legal Counsel’s Office at 
Nixon's Justice Department, to 
his 27 years at the Supreme 
Court, Rehnquist has sat firm- 
ly on his side of the great cul- 


tural and political divide 
through American society. Fa- 
mously, once appointed the 
Court, individual justices break 
free of the ideology for which 
they were picked; guaranteed 
tenure fbr life gives a man re- 
markable independence from 
the political patrons who gave 
him his job. Not however Rehn- 
quist, bugbear of liberals fbr 
four decades. 

Back in the 1950s he op- 
posed school desegregation, 
backing “separate but equal" 
education for the races. At 
Justice, he was a vigorous sup- 
porter of pre-trial detention, 
wiretapping, electronic sur- 
veillance and other parapher- 
nalia of Nixon's “law- 
and-order” programme, soon 


to be grotesquely perverted in 
the Watergate affair. 

Once upon the bench, he 
was a dissenting voice in the 
historic 1973 Roe v. Wade judg- 
ment that confirmed a 
woman’s right to an abortion, 
and has opposed gay rights and 
affirmative action. Tbday along 
with Clarence Thomas and An- 
tonin Scalia, he forms a troika 
of unshakeable conservatives 
on a gradually more liberal 
Clinton court 

Most ominous for the Clin- 
tons however is the manifest 
lack of sympathy by Rehn- 
quist an acknowledged spe- 
cialist on the US constitution, 
for this President’s claims of 
executive privilege to stall the 
special prosecutor's investi- 
gations - uncannily mirroring 
similar efforts by Nixon 25 
years ago. 

Then, the argument re- 
volved around the privacy of 
tapes of Oval Office conversa- 
tions; this time Clinton has 
fought to protect the secrecy of 
advice given him by White 
House lawyers, and over 
whether his bodyguards and 
security men could be forced to 
give grand jury testimony. In 
both cases Rehnquist in person 
ruled against him. 

From there, for many liber- 
als, it is a short jump to iden- 
tifying the Chief Justice as a the 
secret weapon in chief of Clin- 
ton -haters. He is a Republican 
friendly with, and from a com- 
parable professional back- 
ground to, Clinton's nemesis 
Kenneth Starr. 

And indeed, it was Rehn- 
quist who picked the right- 
wing North Carolina judge who 
headed the three-man panel 
which astonished neutrals in 
1994 try choosing Starr to re- 
place Robert Ffskk a moderate 
East Coast Republican as spe- 
cial prosecutor A coincidence? 
Perhaps. But in today’s suspi- 
cion-charged Washington, 
many will be scant inclined to 
believe it 


Clinton would probably survive. 
The Democrats warned them 
that a vote for impeachment 
should not be treated as a warn- 
ing shot across Mr Clinton’s 
bows. 

There is, however; a question 
about how many Republicans 
would have voted for impeach- 
ment if their majority in the 
Senate were greater than its 
current 10, or if they had be- 
lieved that they were voting to 
convict rather than charge. 

Misgivings among Republi- 
cans about removing Mr Clin- 
ton from office may yet open the 
W3y for a motion of censure or 
for a solution that has become 
known as “censure-plus" - that 
would incorporate a stiff fine, 
running into milli ons of dollars, 
and an understanding that Mr 
Clinton could face criminal 
charges on similar counts (per- 
jury and obstruction of justice) 
once he leaves office. 

The assumption in Wash- 
ington - which may not, of 
course, be correct- is that the 
Senate has no appetite for re- 
moving Mr Clinton from office 


and would countenance a 
“plea-bargain" of the sort so 
common in American courts. 

Among the intermediaries - 
in a poetic twist - is believed to 
be the man whom Mr Clinton 
defeated for the presidency in 
1992: the former Republican 
Vice-President and former Sen- 
ator: Bob Dole, who set out a 
five-point compromise two 
weeks ago and has the ear of se- 
nior Senators. 

The Senate Majority leader; 
Then t Lott however stated cat- 
egorically on the eve of the 
House debate that he would not 
stand for anything less than a 
triaL “No deal-making” be said 

The right wing of the Re- 
publican Party would agree, 
and this has led some to believe 
that a trial is inevitable. The 
only question then would be its 
duration, and the outcome. 

The Senate convenes for its 
new session on 6 January. A 
trial could commence as early 
as 11 January, but would prob- 
ably take place later One fore- 
cast is that it could be as short 
as a few days; another- that it 


could last several months, de- 
pending on whether witnesses 
are called, and how many. 

Proceedings would be tele- 
vised, but not the deliberations 
of the Senators - who may ask 
written questions but not speak 
during the triaL 
A two-thirds majority of the 
100-strong Senate is needed 
for conviction, which would re- 
quire 12 Democrats to vote 
with the 55 Republicans. Cur- 
rently, that scale of defections 
looks unlikely. But Senators 
are regarded as wilful and 
quirky at least two - Robert 
Byrd and Pat Moynihan - are 
sticklers for the Constitution 
and the law, and might change 
sides, taking others with them. 

ff as in the House, the ar- 
guments move towards the 
high principles of a guardian of 
the law who lies under oath and 
away from “what did he touch 
and when did he touch it?", any 
vote could be closer than the 
White House would like. Which 
is why they will be investing so 
much effort over the holiday 
season in forging a deal. j 


WHAT 
Next for 
Clinton? 


1. Resignation 

As che import of che 
impeachment voce sinks in. 
Mr Ointon loses the 
support of Congressional 
Democrats and the country 
and is persuaded, despite 
himself, to resign. 

2. Forced Out 

A Senate trial is held. 
Sufficient Democrat 
Senators are 
convinced of 
the gravity 
of the 
President's 
conduct and 
its 

harmfulness 
for the country and provide 
the two-thirds majority 
necessary to convict. The 
President is forced out and 
replaced by A! Gore. 

3. Tried but Aquitted 
A Senate trial is held. Mr 
Clinton's lawyers satisfy the 
Democrats chat che 
offences cannot be proved. 
Their vote holds solid and 
Mr Clinton is acquitted: he 
remains in office. Like 
Andrew Johnson in 1 868, 
he has been impeached, but 
not removed. He claims 
victory 

4. The Lame Duck 

White House strikes a deal 
between now and the new 
Congressional session in 
January. The Senate 
convenes and i . y — 

immediately — — 
adjourns, 

accepbng * r y { r *f 

something 

tantamount 

presidential 

plea-bargain entailing a 
strong censure, perhaps a 
fine, but no further 
punishment. Mr Ointon is 
wounded, but not slain. 

5. Constitutional 
Fisticuffs 

The White House fights on 
constitutional grounds, 
contesting, perhaps, the 
right of the Senate to cry 
the President on the 
basis of charges approved 
by a House of 
Representatives whose 
mandate has expired and 
Representatives who were 
voted out of office (in the 
November elections}, before 
they voted on 
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THE IMPEACHMENT OF A PRESIDENT — 


The precedents of misdemeanour 


Nixon: The 
man who 
cut and ran 

WASHINGTON, 1974 


“ONLY IF you've been in the 
deepest valley” booms an eeri- 
ly familiar voice from the video 
screen, “can you know how 
magnificent it is to be on the 
highest mountain top” Com- 
forting words, perhaps, for 
President Bill Clinton as he 
faces the humiliation of a Sen- 
ate impeachment trial, partic- 
ularly since they come from a 
former president uniquely 
placed to appreciate his 
predicament - Richard Nixon. 

We are in the auditorium of 
the Richard Nixon Library and 
Birthplace, in a remote comer 
of the sprawling Los Angeles 
suburbs, and the video being 
played is entitled, aptly enough, 
Never Give Up. Made a few 
years before Mr Nixon’s death 
in 1994, it is a 28-minute orgy of 
rhetorical self-congratulation 
and justification for the trau- 
matic events that led, in August 
1974, to the first resignation of 
a US president 

Mr Nixon intones from be- 
yond the grave about world 
peace and the spread of free- 
dom, while skirting as best be 
can around the lying, cheating 
and abuse of federal institutions 
that led the judiciary commit- 
tee of his time to draw up two 
articles of impeachment the 
quit before they came before 
the foil House). 

Watergate takes up the sin- 
gle largest space in the library 
exhibition - a long wall of pic- 
tures, text and audio extracts 
from Mr Nixon's notorious 
White House tapes - but the 
scandal is presented in highly 
defensive tones as a political 
plot against an essentially ho- 
nourable president 

Is this the way Bill Clinton 
will be forced to present his 
legacy to the world - a hollow 
exercise in saving face, in 
which the uncomfortable facts 


By Andrew g umbel 
inYorba Linda, California 

must somehow be manipulat- 
ed to look less embarrassing? 
Or are the two cases so (Effer- 
ent that comparisons are 
meaningless? After all, faced by 
bipartisan belief that he should 
go, Mr Nixon did not even wait 
for the frill House to vote upon 
impeachment Once the House 
judiciary committee had voted 
a sin gl e article of impeach- 
ment the men in grey suits 
were at the White House and, 
within a week, Marine One was 
lifting off from the White House 
lawn to cany him back home to 
California. 

One thing is sure - of the 
many unrepentant Nixon fans 
who come to his library to pay 
homage, few display much sym- 
pathy for the way the current 
president is being treated. 
Many have trouble even caning 
Mr Clinton by his name. 

“Nixon was just covering up 
for his group and his people He 
didn’t attack the whole fabric of 
society like... like this guy - 1 
cant even call him ‘president' 
any more.” said George Shus- 
ter; a retired mortician from 
Connecticut and one-time Re- 
publican mayoral candidate. 
“We put our sans and daughters 
in Washington as interns to 
teach them about this great sys- 
tem of ours. To have a manlike 
that taking advantage -why, it's 
rotten to the core.” Mr Shus- 
ter's wife saw even greater 
evil lurking behind the presi- 
dency. “Clinton has destroyed 
the military. The Russians and 
Asians Nixon fought are now liv- 
ing in the White House! Don’t 
you think there's some kind of 
communism behind it all?” 

A paranoid touch worthy of 
Tricky Dick himself, one might 
say. Particularly since public 



opinion is behind Mr Clinton in 
a way it never was for Mr 
Nixon. So strong is national op- 
position to impeachment that 
only at places such as the Nixon 
Library can supporters be 
found in any number. 

There are those who believe 
the impeachment proceedings 
are little more than delayed re- 
venge by the Republican ma- 
jority in Congress for the 
treatment handed out to Nixon 


bvhis Democratic adversaries. 
Nobody at the Nixon Library 
was willing to assign such low 
motives to the Republicans, al- 
though plenty were happy to ac- 
cuse the Democrats of putting 
politics before principle in 1974. 

“I think Nixon got a raw 
deal,” opined Joe Betz from Bal- 
timore. “With him it was a po- 
litical tiling, unlike Clinton, who 
lies.” President Clintorf s pur- 
ported lies are the reason most 


Nixonites think he deserves to 
be turfed out But what about 
Mr Nixon’s record? He was 
the man of whom Lyndon John- 
son said: “He can lie out ofboth 
sides of his mouth at once. 
And even if he is irflmg the 
truth, he ties anyway, just to 
keep his hand in.” 

To be fair; some visitors 
thought Nixon got his just 
deserts. “He was a great states- 
man, but he also lied and 


abused bis power,” said a San 
Diego policeman. “la zr^y job, if 
I lie rm fired immediately. The 
same goes for. ' whafcssname.” 

Such reflections were not 
echoed by the staff of the fibrary 
who. in staik contrast to the 
more virulent-minded visitors, 
dearly understood the politics 
ofpotsand black kettles. “Pres- 
ident Nixon always felt it was 
unfair to speak out against a sit- 
ting president,” explained the 


library’s director of program- 
ming, Evie Lazzarino. “This 
institute aims to celebrate the 
presidency, not denigrate it” 
To the amusement of many 
visitors, the library is hosting an 
exhibition on presidential ro- 
mance - the matrim onial sort, 
that is. Among the mazy arte- 
facts, which go back to Lincoln, 
is Hillar y Clinton’s wedding 
gown. It gets plenty of com- 
ments, most of them unprint- 


able. In the light of recent 
events, the exhibition comes off 
sounding remarkably opti- 
mistic about the health of both 
the Clinton presidency and the - 
Clinton marriage. “On October 
11, 2000, President Clinton and 
Hillary Rodham Clinton will 
celebrate their 25th wedding an- 
niversary in the White House, ” 
announces the display above 
tiie First Lady's gown. Maybe . 
one shouldn’t be so sure. 4 


Johnson: The man who stood 
and fought to stay in office 


WASHINGTON, 1868 


By Rupert Cornwell 

THE REPUBLICAN Congress- 
man was talking about the 
American President born into 
poverty from the border South 
whom he detested with unfor- 
giving fury, that “ungrateful de- 
spicable, besotted, traitorous 
man - an incubus". 

Bill Clinton, you might imag- 
ine. In fact not The giveaway 
is the Latin-derived word, incu- 
bus, relating to a “nightmare” 
or "demon". In the 19th. centu- 
ry, a knowledge of the classics 
still meant something. The ob- 
ject of the Congressman’s 
loathing was the 17th President, 
Andrew Johnson, the last, and 
at least until today, the only oc- 
cupant of the White House to be 
impeached - in 1368. 

The two cases are different, 
not least because Johnson was 
a clumsy and tactless politician. 


nowhere near the league of 
that eloquent and consummate 
political operator; Wiliam Jef- 
ferson Clinton. He was also 
untested, a Vice-President who 
had been promoted by accident 
three years earlier when Abra- 
ham Lincoln was assassinated. 
But despite the space of 130 
years and the 24 Presidents 
which separate them, they are 
remarkably similar. 

Johnson came from Tennes- 
see, a Confederate state, and 
though he had opposed seces- 
sion, he sought a less punitive 
reconstruction for the vanquish- 
ed South. He had begun life as 
a Democrat, and only became 
a Republican with the approach 
of the Civil Wan Almost imme- 
diately upon entering the White 
House he fell foul of Congress, 


where the Radical faction of the 
Republican Party bait 00 max- 
imum vengeance on the South, 
promoted financial aid fix' freed 
blacks, and a Civil Rights Act 
which in some instances would 
give than greater voting rights 
than whites. Far Johnson, the 
measures were unfair and in- 
fringed states' rights. To the 
fury of the Radical Republicans, 
he vetoed them both. 

The Congressional elections 
of 1866, in which Johnson 
sought to outflank his nominal 
allies by enlisting the support 
of northern Democrats brought 
him only defeat and crushing 
repudiation. The Republicans’ 
hatred of Johnson only grew: in 
the words of one Cabinet mem- 
ber, they would have impeach- 
ed him “had be been accused 


of stepping on a dog’s tall”. 
Their chance came on 21 Feb- 
ruary 1868, when Johnson dis- 
missed his Secretary of War 
Edwin Stanton, in defiance of a 
recent law stipulating that such 
steps required Congressional 
approval. No matter that the 
law was unconstitutional The 
Radical Republicans went 
ahead, throwing in some other 
counts of conspiracy and bring- 
ing Congress into disrepute. 

Here too parallels abound. 
Johnson’s private life, like Clin- 
ton’s, was less than pristine. 
Today’s 42nd President has 
been smeared by sexual scan- 
dal and lying to a Grand Jury 
to cover it up - but nothing to 
match tee insinuations agains t 
Johnson, who, it was suggest- 
ed, had arranged Lincoln's 


murder to seize supreme pow- 
er. Then as now, partisanship 
swept away aQ semblance of po- 
litical civility. On 24 February, 
Johnson was quickly impeach- 
ed by a 126-47 vote along party 
lines, and sent for trial to the 
Senate on 11 counts in alL 
The decisive moment came 
on 21 May 1868. The Republi- 
cans could afford six defec- 
tions. In fact seven voted to save 
Johnson's skin. The seventh 
and last of them was Edmund 
Ross from Kansas, who was 
thereafter shunned by his col- 
leagues; evicted from office at 
the next election; and subject- 
ed to vilificatfon by former sup- 
porters. History, however; has 
judged Ross more kindly, as an 
unsung saviour of the republic's 
constitution. Johnson for his 
part managed to serve out the 
rest of his term. Right now, Bill 
Clinton would ask no more. 



From the moment of madness to the moment of truth: 


It’s hard to believe now, but 
a year ago none of us had 
heard of Monica Lewinsky. 
She was just one of many 
ambitious young things who 
had done an internship at 
the White House. The 
“bimbo eruption” on 
everybody’s Ups was Paula 
Jones, who was bringing a 
sexual harassment suit 
against the President, 
and a minor player in 
her case became the 
catalyst for his 
impeachment 



Lewinsky testifies in 
Jones case 

Called to testify in Paula 
Jones's sexual harassment 
case, Monica Lewinsky 
denies she ever had a sexual 
relationship with the 
President She allegedly asks 
Linda Tripp, a friend and ex- 
White House employee, to lie 
for her as welL But Tripp has 
another agenda. 


1 3 January 


Tripp tapes chats 
with Lewinsky 
Tripp wears a hidden 
microphone for the 
FBI and records 
intimate 

conversations with 
Lewinsky about the 
President 
Subsequently, 
prosecutors 
ask Lewinsky 



to co-operate 



in their investigation. She 
refuses. 


1 3 January 


Rumours fly on the 
Internet 

Matt Drudge, the 
scandalmonger of the 
Internet reports that 
Newsweek has shelved an 
expose of an affair between 
Clinton and Lewinsky. 


21 January 


Existence of Tripp’s 
tapes reported 

The Washington Post reports 
the existence of the tapes 
that Tripp made of her chats 
with Lewinsky. 


26 January 


Clinton denies sexual 
relations with Lewinsky 

The scandal has enveloped 
Washington and the world. 
With newspapers debating 
the President's demise, he 
denies having an affair with 
Lewmsfy 

“I did not have sexual 
relations with that woman,” 
he tells reporters, without 
elaborating on his somewhat 
unusual definition of sex. 


27 January 


Hillary Clinton defends 
husband on television 



Hillary Clinton appears on 
national television to defend 
her husband, calling 
detractors' allegations a 
“vast right-wing conspiracy”. 


29 January 


President Houdlni 
appears to escape 

The Clintons’ aplomb, 
combined with Middle 
America's indifference, 
combine to give “President 
Houdini” his first great 
escape of the year. Opinion 
polls show the President’s 
approval ratings at an all- 
time high. 


1 5 March 


Kathleen Willey accuses 
Clinton of fondling 

As Kenneth Starr, the special 
prosecutor; continues his 
investigation into the 
President’s alleged 
peccadilloes, Kathleen Willey, 
another former White House 


worker; accuses the 
President on television of 
fondling her by the door to 
the Oval Office. 


2 April 


Jones case dismissed 

Paula Jones’s sexual 
harassment case against the 
President is dismissed. 
Wiley’s claims fade without 
making much impact 


2 June 


Lewinsky fires lawyer 

After weeks of tense 
negotiations and impasse 
between Starr’s office and 
Lewinsky she replaces her 
high-profile lawyer; William 
Ginsburg. Starr hasn't 
managed to Convince 
Lewinsky to testify but his 
tentacles are spreading. 


30 June 1993 


Linda THpp testifies 

before a Grand Jury 


Linda Tripp testifies 
before a Grand Jury 
in Washington. She 
makes no public 
comments, but has 
already become one . 
of the most 
unpopular women 
in America. 

Clinton’s 
approval 
remains 
high. 








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THE INDEPENDENT 

Monday 21 December 1998 


THE IMPEACHMENT OF A PRESIDENT 


Groundswell 

of sympathy 
for Clinton 


VIEW AROUND THE COUNTRY 


THEY MAY not have watched all 
of it - the four votes, their 
President on the White House 
lawn vowing to plough on, his 
eyes almost shut with exhaus- 
tion and emotion, or even the 
speech from Bob Livingston, 
the Speaker of the House-elect 
announcing his intent to resign. 
But yesterday everybody knew 
what had happened. And most 
apparently, did not like it 

There was not shock among 
the dtizemy, but rather a 
numbed acknowledgement that 
a historical bridge had been 
crossed And although there are 
divisions for sure, a polarisation 
between those who wanted 
~ President Bill Clinton im- 
* peached and those who thought 
the punishment too harsh, the 
arguing had, on the whole, sub- 
sided. In the churches they 
prayed that the whole thing, 
however it aids, should be over 
soon. 

TVue, at the posh Innis 
Arden Country Club in Old 
Greenwich. Connecticut, de- 
bate still sputtered on. There on 
the practice putting green, with 
a tall flag bearing the stars-and- 
s tripes, James Borges argued 
with his golfing pal Thomas 
Curtin as he handed him a 
wrapped gift for Christmas. Mr 
Borges liked what the Repub- 
licans (fid. Mr Curtin thought it 
ign embarrassing nonsense. 

“I think Clinton did wrong 
and the Republican party was 
following the principles that 
were setup in the constitution," 
Mr Borges said. “Maybe too 
much has been made of the sex, 
but the President lied and he 
should be chased out of of- 
fice." Mr Curtin roiled his eyes 
and laughed “I think this is so 
terrible because around the 
world this makes us look like a 
bunch of idiots." 

In numerous interviewsyes- 
^jyday with voters on the East 


By David Usborne 

in New York AND ANDREW 

Gumbel in Los Angeles 

and West coasts finding any- 
body willing to celebrate the 
votes on Saturday was a tall 
order Hie common strand was 
sadness, while a clear majori- 
ty were angry at the Republi- 
cans. The same views were 
bom out by snap polls that 
showed the popularity rating of 
the President rising. Notably 
the NBC poll showed his ap- 
proval rating up from 68 to 72 
per cent A total of 62 per cent 
said he should not resign. 

“There is nothing to say at 
this stage, except to hope that 
the whole thing backfires on the 
Republicans terribly." said Tim 
Pershing, a camera technician 
in Hollywood, where support for 
President Clinton remains 
strong. Bill Rubensteiru a 
screenwriter has been trying to 
spend an hour a day telephon- 
ing politicians, conservative 
think-tanks, anyone who might 
listen to his argument that im- 
peachment is wrong. “These 
people are doing something 
profoundly evil and, for the 
most part they don't even know 
it So I by to tell them." he said 
Indulging in their ritual Sun- 
day morning hour at their local 
bagel shop, Alfred and Rosalie 
Hutter of Stamford. Connecti- 
cut understand that the Pres- 
ident erred in his private life but 
disagree that that warrants his 
removal from office. ‘‘We have 
just had our 50th anniversary," 
Mr Sutter a limousine driver, 
explained (The couple cele- 
brated with a QEH voyage to 
England last month) . “Neither 
1 nor my wife have known sex- 
ual relations with anyone else 
in all that time, and what the 
President did was wrong. But 
on the other hand I am not so 
offended by it that 1 think he 


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should be driven out They say 
he lied to protect bis family. 
Well yeah, we can understand 
that" 

Mr Sutter said the news that 
Mr Livingston had committed 
adultery made him laugh. “Ac- 
tually I was hysterical." he 
said. 

President Clinton, some 
have suggested, is America's 
first black President, because 
of the affinity felt by many in the 
African American community 
towards him. In packed con- 
gregations at several churches 
in H ariem yesterday, the mood 
was one of dismay and intense 
sympathy for the first family 

At the minuscule St Samuel 
Church of God in Christ on East 
125th Street, the worshippers 
had to wait for 20 minutes be- 
fore the 11 o’clock service finally 
got under way. That was be- 
cause their preacher the Rev. 
Amos Kemper; was in his office 
discussing the im pojiehmRn t 
vote with his fellow church 
leaders. All were angry. 

“They should give him an- 
other chance, everybody should 
be given another chance,” of- 
fered Katie Stokes. The little 
plastic badge on her dress 
might have been for Henry 
Hyde, the chairman of the 
House Judiciary Committee: 
“Ain’t nobody God but God," it 
read. 

Hie Rev. James Duncan 
watched all of Saturday's pro- 
ceedings on his television. 
“They’ve been trying to put 
Clinton's back up against the 
wall in Washington, asking him 
to confess to perjury and so 
forth. He can't do it though be- 
cause they would put him injafl. 
He is a good president because 
his is the first president who 
has been approachable for us." 
Does this mean the Rev Dun- 
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Republican do time," he spits. 

‘There is no minority in this 
country who should be voting 
for that party, because it is the 
Good 01' Boy party" the Rev- 
erend Kemper interjects. 
“What we saw yesterday was 
really the dogma of the human 
race, the dogma to hurt The 
Republicans want to ignore us, 
the people, and that’s got to be 
wrong”. 

Seventy blocks south at St 
Patrick's Catholic Cathedral, 
where the congregation was al- 


most entirely white. Car dinal 
Patrick O'Connor asked for 
prayers, not for President Clin- 
ton but for the impeachment 
process - that it should be “re- 
solved soon and justly". They 
were prayers offered, after all 
in a season that is meant to be 
about peace and goodwill. 

George Sinko, a retired ad- 
vertising executive who travels 
from Long Island to worship at 
St Patrick’s, is a long-time Re- 
publican. IBs views, however 
were with the majority at yes- 


terday's service. “What Presi- 
dent Clinton did does not con- 
stitute an impeachable offence 
in my view. This whole thing has 
been entirely partisan. I think 
it has been terribly unfair and 
is distracting the country from 
so many other important thing s 
he should be caring about” 

As the politicians from both 
parties in Washington headed 
home to their districts and 
their families yesterday they 
leave one drama behind them 
and know that another drama 


awaits them in the New Year 
the expected trial in the Senate. 
For sure, they will be hearing 
from their constituents over the 
Christmas season. 

But, as they see the dismay 
over the partisanship that 
reigns in Washington, they may 
want to consider these words 
written above the make-shift 
altar St Samuel's Church in 
Harlem: “We are one in the 
Spirit, we are one in the Lord 
and we pray that all unity may, 
one day. be restored”. 


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VOCAL 

AMERICANS 


Thomas Mann, 

Brookings Institution: 

“It is not an ennobling 
time. As someone who’s 
watched national politics 
for almost 30 years. I've 
never been so ashamed 
of our national political 
leaders, and never so 
saddened by the 
behaviour of Congress.” 



Barbra Streisand, 

actress and staunch 
Clinton supporter: “Who 
could have imagined that 
we would be living in a 
time when those we 
elected to office would 
turn off their phones and 
unplug their fax 
machines in order to 
ignore the voices of the 
American people?" 

Walter Isaacson, Che 

managing editor of Time 
magazine, which named 
Bill Clinton and Kenneth 
Starr its “men of the 
year”: ‘Decades hence, 
we will still be debating 
the meaning of the great 
Clinton-Starr struggle 
and picking at the 
lingering wounds." 



Arianna Huffington, 

conservative columnist: 
“Congress is not the 
appropriate venue for 
Livingston to rell his 
wife, as he did in the 
middle of an 
impeachment debate, he 
loves her... nor is his 
resignation a sign of 
political valour. Instead, 
it blurs irreparably the 
line between the 
president’s serial 
infidelities and his serial 
lying under oath." 


Ku Klux Klan man will 
stand for Livingston seat 


Republican Reaction 


Bid to remove the chief 
has unified the party 


Democrat Reaction 




BY ANDREW MARSHALL 

AS IF the Republicans needed 
any more bad news, David 
Duke, a farmer Ku Klux Klan 
leader has said he will run for 
the congressional seat vacated 
by Bob Livingston, the Speaker 
elect who resigned on Saturday. 

T am running because there 
needs to be one member of Con- 
gress who stands up for the Eu- 
ropean- American,” Mr Duke 
said, a message that the party 
really does not need Because 
• ..Though it may have got 
what it wanted - the impeach- 
ment of President Bill Clinton 
- the party has emerged bat- 
tered, Weeding and deeply di- 
vided 

The resignation of Mr Liv- 
ingston crystallised its prob- 
lems. He had been appointed 
just weeks ago after Newt Gin- 


grich, the former Speaker re- 
signed in the wake of the elec- 
tion rout 

Mr Livingston was forced to 
admit on Thursday that he had 
damaged his marriage through 
adulterous liaisons, after a 
Washington newsletter pub- 
lished details on its web site. 

Mr Livingston presented his 
resignation as an honourable 
reaction to his problems, and 
challenged the President to 
follow suit But in truth, be 
was brought down by the anger 
of conservative members of 
his own party The resignation 
left his colleagues stunned 

Tt was like a punch in the 
stomach,” said New York Re- 
publican Peter King. “Some 
members were actually crying 
on the House flooc” 

Tom DeLay, the Republi- 
cans’ chief whip, came appar- 



Bob Livingston: forced to 
resign by colleagues 

entiy to praise Mr Livingston. 
“He understood what this de- 
bate was ail about — it’s about 
honour and decency and in- 


tegrity and tiie truth, everything 
we honour in this country,” he 
said But Mr deLay, who was 
the first target of criticism after 
the elections saw the Republi- 
cans lose House seats, has 
emerged suspiciously well- 
placed. The new speaker is 
likely to be Tom Has tert, a pro- 
tege of his from the whips’ of- 
fice. 

Hie Republicans in the Sen- 
ate have watched aghast as the 
House party has turned itself in- 
side out They are unlikely to 
want a repetition in their House 
of the same events: weeks of 
hearings, embarrassing ques- 
tions and opinion polls that 
show the public think they are 
partisan and vindictive. 

AH of this points towards 
some early move to broker a 
deal which sees the President 
censured. 


By Mary dejevsky 

ALTHOUGH CONGRESSIONAL 
Democrats have suffered the 
indignity of seeing their Pres- 
ident impeached by a convinc- 
ing majority in the House of 
Representatives, they are 
standing behind Bill Clinton. 

The number of Democrats 
who voted for impeachment 
was kept to six, Representatives 
came out of the Chamber en 
masse to protest at the rejec- 
tion of a censure vote, and 
massed a couple of hours later 
at the White House to demon- 
strate their continuing support 
for the President Their leader 
in the house, Dick Gephardt 
strengthened his position and 
earned widespread respect for 
his handling of the debate. 

The party’s solidarity is in 
marked contrast to the defec- 


tions in the congressional party 
suffered by Richard Nixon 24 
years ago and is one crucial rea- 
son why Mr Clinton has sur- 
vived this fan 

In the summer, in the wake 
of Mr Clinton's 17 August ad- 
mission that he had tied about 
his relationship with BAs Lewin- 
sky morale in the party was low 
and divisions multiplied as mid- 
term elections approached. 

But Hillary Clinton's cam- 
paigning zeal, and Mr Clinton’s 
strong showing in opinion polls, 
seemed to rally the party, and 
the Democrats’ election results 
were far stronger than anyone 
had expected. 

Since then. Democrats have 

)ywi ahrt ngt nnanim n ns ~m th*>rr 

support of Mr Clinton, and his 
plight may even have served as 
a unifying force. The ortho- 
doxy now is that be has been 




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Dick Gephardt: Earned 
widespread respect 

unfairly targeted by Republi- 
cans and that he has done, 
and will continue to do. much 


good for the country. 

So far, a majority of Democ- 
rats has chosen to disregard, or 
to parry, the vexed question of 
principle and it is possible that 
this could become a divisive fac- 
tor when Mr Clinton is tried in 
the Senate. 

Despite this backing, the 
White House is said to be wor- 
ried that momentum could 
build up behind calls for Mr 
Clinton to step down, especial- 
ly after Bob Livingston's res- 
ignation from the House 
speakership on Saturday. 

But so long as opinion poUs 
show a majority in the country 
stiff approving of Mr Clinton, 
Democrats seem prepared to 
ralty around their President, 
and the Nixon precedent of 
senior party officers arriving at 
the White House to persuade 
him to resign seems remote. 



William Jefferson Clinton’s year of living dangerously 

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'8 July 1998 


Starr ofFers Monica 
Lewinskf immunity 

Kenneth Starr announces he 
has finally reached a deal 
giving Lewinsky immunity 
from prosecution far perjury 
in exchange for full details 
about her relationship with 
the President 


6 August 


Lewinsky testifies in 
Front of a Grand Jury 

Lewinsky testifies in front of 
a Grand Jury for six hours. 


1 7 August 


Clinton confesses on 
national TV 

On the day of his long- 
awaited testimony the 
President tells the Grand 
Jure; and the nation that he 
heSjg relationship with 
T ^fthskythat was “not 
appropriate". He does not 



apologise and looks relaxed 
on Was he goes to Martha’s 
Vineyard on 18 August 


20 August 


Clinton orders bombing 

Clinton orders the bombing 
of a “chemical weapons 
plant" in Sudan and a 
terrorist base in Afghanistan, 


A September 


Clinton says he fs sorry 

, Clinton apologises for the 
affair Tm sorry,” he tells 
America. 


9 September 


Starr completes report 

Starr sends his completed 
report to Congress under 
high security: Clinton 1 

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Starr report published 

The Starr report, in all its 
damning, lurid detail, is 
published on the Internet 


21 September 


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shown on TV 

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1 5 October 


Impeachment flounders 

Hie impeachment inquiry 
appears to be floundering. 


3 November 


Democrats gain seats 

Democrats increase seats in 
the Congressional mid-term 
elections. Clinton sheds his 
contrition and regains his 
confidence - and cockiness. 


20 November 


Ethics adviser resigns 

Starr’s ethics adviser resigns 
after the special prosecutor 
defends his much-derided 
report in front of Congress- 


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Strategy aims at endgame for Saddam 


TONY BLAIR and Bill Clinton 
have laid out a new strategy to- 
wards Saddam Hussein aimed 

at rnn tatning him militar ily anri 

preparing for his end. 

The most visible element of 
the new plan is the dispatch of 
the British aircraft carrier 
HMS Invincible to the Guff 
George Robertson, the Defence 
Secretary, said: “It is a very big 
signal - we are not going away; 
we remain vigilant" 

The ship can mount air and 
land attacks, and carries up to 
24 aircraft - usually a mix of Sea 
Harrier FA2 fighters, RAF Har- 
rier GR7 bombers and Sea 
King helicopters. 

The carrier, which has been 
refitted since serving in the 
fhiklands, has a crew of 1.200 
men and women. 


BY ANDREW MARSHALL 

in Washington 

AND ANDREW GRICE 


There are four main ele- 
ments in the new strategy of 
containment, laid out by the US 
President on Saturday and the 
Prime Minister yesterday in vir- 
tually identical speeches. The 
first is the readiness to use 
force. “We will maintain a 
strong military presence in the 
area, and we will remain ready 
to use it if Saddam tries to re- 
build his weapons of mass de- 
struction, strikes out at his 
neighbours, challenges allied 
aircraft, or moves against the 
Kurds," Mr Clinton said. 

The second element is the 
maintenance of sanctions. “We 
will sustain what have been 


Target list 
suggests 
more action 


is planned 


THE DAMAGE 


BRITAIN AND the United States 
are claiming that they hit all of 
the targets on their list in four 
days of air strikes. 

But it is difficult to survey the 
target lists without coming to 
the conclusion that this opera- 
tion leaves the way open for 
some other form of military ac- 
tion against or within, Iraq. The 
focus on military units and 
communications facilities in 
the south of the country sug- 
gests that Washington and Lon- 
don believe there is a possibility 
of a revolt against the regime. 

The US and Britain have re- 
leased fairly extensive infor- 
mation about the targets of 
their strikes and the extent of 
the damage done. 

They have not claimed, as 
was sometimes the case during 
the 1991 Gulf War, total victory. 
They have been more modest 
in their assessments, fearing 
the sort of backlash which 
came in 1991 when it was dis- 
covered that not everything 
that they said had been de- 
stroyed was even hit 

The first main category of 
targets was the air defence 
system, which was moderate- 
ly damaged. 

The US and Britain hit com- 
mand centres, surface-to-air 
missiles, communication links 
and radar sites across the 
country. This would have been 
expected as part of any air at- 
tack - it clears the way for air- 
craft, rather than missiles, to 
be used. The US said that it 
wanted to dear an air corridor 
from the south of the country 
to the north. 

The second main category of 
attack was the sites associat- 
ed with weapons of mass de- 
struction. The targets seem to 
have been principally sites as- 
sociated with the weaponisa- 
tion of chemical, nudear and 
biological threats - missile fac- 
tories and repair sites, guid- 
ance manufacturers and 
engine sites. 

The US avoided dual-use 
sites where the chemical or bi- 
ological agents might have 
been prepared, partly because 
these might have entailed civil- 
ian casualties, partly because. 


BY ANDREW MARSHALL 
in Washington 


it said, it feared releasing dan- 
gerous chemicals into the air. 
But it would also be far harder 
to find these sites, and they 
might be easier for the Iraqis 
to patch up. 

The message seemed to be 
that London and Washington 
still fear that such weapons will 
be developed, but they want to 
stop Iraq from being able to de- 
liver them. 

The Pentagon said that it be- 
lieved it had delayed Iraq’s 
missile programme by a year - 
that implies it wants to revisit 
the strikes. 

The third category of targets 
was politico-military. There has 
obviously been an effort to re- 
move or weaken the upper tier 
of the regime. The key com- 
mand centres of the Republican 
Guard have been selected - 
corps and divisional head- 
quarters. So have the main 
barracks and HQs of the Spe- 
cial Republican Guard, the 
units with the task of protect- 
ing the regime, and the head- 
quarters and barracks of all of 
the intelligence organisations. 

These attacks on security or- 
ganisations were explained as 
assaults on the weapons con- 
cealment programme, in which 
all of these organisations 
played a key role. 

But they are also important 
elements in the regime's in- 
ternal security. Add to that the 
other targets, and it looks as if 
some other military action - ei- 
ther internal revolt, or some 
sort of limited intervention 
from outside - is being con- 
templated The US destroyed 
enmmimicati nns faciliti es tying 
together the north and south of 
the country, for instance. These 
links can be restored within a 
few months, so there must 
have been some reason for 
wanting to weaken the com- 
munications in the short term. 

And the attacks on assault 
helicopter bases across the 
country also indicate that 
America wants to prevent Iraq 
from being able to respond to 
an insurgency. 




Military Options 


among the most extensive 
sanctions in UN history,” Mr 
Clinton said The US and 
Britain will support the oil-for- 
food programme, but,“we wffl 
insist that Iraq’s oil be used for 
food, not tanks”, Mr Clinton 

said Again, that mnans more 
military and naval action. 

“We will be acting to ensure 
that implementation of sanc- 
tions is as rigorous as we can 
make it, for example through 
reinforced operations in the 
Gulf to intercept suspect traf- 
fic,” Mr Biair said “We need, 
radically in my view, to im- 
prove sanction&enforeement” 

The third pillar is counter- 
proliferation - ensuring that 
Iraq does not develop its 
weapons of mass destru ction 
This will be much harder with- 


out Unscom on the ground pro- 
viding intelligence. Again, all 
that is Left is military force. 

“If Unscom is not allowed to 
resume its work on a regular 
basis, we will remain vigilant 
and prepared to use farce if we 
see that Iraq is rebuilding its 
weapons programmes,” Mr 
Clinton said. 

The fourth is perhaps the 
most intriguing - the replace- 
ment of Saddam Hussein. 
“Over the long-tram the best 
way to raid the threat that Sad- 
dam poses to his own people in 
the region is for Iraq to have a 
different government,” said Mr 
Clinton. 

The US has already stepped 
up links with the Iraqi opposi- 
tion, and had said it would 
work out before the end of the 


year ways of disbursing the 
$97m agreed by Congress for 

militar y tr aining and equip- 
ment “We will intensify our rai- 
gagement with the Iraqi oppo- 
sition groups, prudently ami ef- 
fectively” Mr Clinton said. 

The US and Britain have also 
given dear agnals that they be- 
lieve there is someone, or 
something, waiting in the 
wings. “We will stand ready to 
help a new leadership in Bagh- 
dad that abides by its intrana- 
tional commitments and 
respects the rights of its own 
people,” Mr Clinton said “We 
hope it will return Iraq to its 
rightf ul p fece in the communi- 
ty of nations.” 

Achieving these goals wfll re- 
quire two princfcal means -nnl- 
itaiy and /n^nmatie On the rate 


hand, both countries have a lot 
of fences to mend with their al- 
lies in Europe, as well as Rus- 
sia and China. “We are 
launching an intensive diplo- 
matic process with other mem- 
bers of the Security Council,” 
said Mr Blair “with the coun- 
tries (rf the region, with our Eu- 
ropean partners to forge a new 
st rategy for stability in relations 
between the international com- 
munity and Iraq.” 

He put much more weight on 
diplomacy in his speech than 
Mr Clinton did in bis. 

On the other; a continuing 
military presence in the Gulf 
will require great expenditure 
and a shift towards a much 
more active policy for both na- 
tions in the region. The US al- 


mJBtaiy and naval force in the 
Gulf, and it is reinforcing it It 
is sending an extra 40 ground- 
based aircraft, and special air- 

to-ground surveillance aircraft 

that win enable the US to trade 
the movements of tanks and 
vehicles. 

The adtfition of HMS Invin- 
cible means that, by January, 
there will be two or perhaps 
three aircraft carriers in the 

Gulf; there are currently two US 

carriers 'the USS Enterprise 
and the USS Carl Vinson), 
though the Enterprise may be 

rotated out 

But for Britain, the mission 
in the Gulf may mark a much 
more important transition. 

Mr Blah: has made a long- 
term commitment to a militaiy 
force in the Gulf, but also seems 


to be making an attempt to 
forge a quiet new form of strate- 
gic alliance with the US outside 
of Europe. 

Britain withdrew its mili- 
tary forces from east of Suez in 
1971 because of its reduced 
circumstances, dosing bases 
and focusing almost exclusive- 
ly on the Nato mission in 
Europe. 

Now, the return of the In- 
vincible seems to suggest a 

gradual return to the globalism 

that (tied out in the Sixties. 
Britain has also recently 
bought its own submarine- 
launched Tomahawk cruise 
mis siles, and is planning two 
new aircraft carriers. There 
may be a shift taking place that 
has profound implications for 
foreign and defence policy. 


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American and British 
aircraft flew 650 strike and - 
support sorties. 97 targets 
were hit in total. US Navy 
launched more than 325 
ends missiles. US Air Force 
launched more than 90 
cruise missiles. The twelve 
RAF Tornado bombers flew 
32 sorties and dropped 
some fifty 2,000 lb bombs. 


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Destroyed/Damaged: 6 
Moderate/Light Damage: 8 



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Destroyed/Damaged: 11 
Moderate/Light Damage: 6 
Under Assessment: 3 0 


Weapons Security 


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Sites Attacked: 18 
Destroyed/Severely 
Damaged: 7 

Moderate/Light Damage: 11 
Under Assessment: 0 


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Defence Targets: 


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Security and 
Intelligence Targets: 


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economic Targets: 


Total Sites Attacked: 9 
Destroyed/Damaged: 3 
Moderate/Light Damage: 6 
Under Assessment: 0 


Communications facilities in An- 
Nasarlyeh, A1 Rumaylah, A1 Qumah and 
Baghdad Republican Guard: Southern 
Corps HQ In A1 Kut; Northern Corps 
HQ in Rashediyeh, Baghdad; Divisional 
HQs and barracks In Mosul and Kut. 

Air Defence centre in Baghdad 
Surface-to-air missile systems and 
anti-aircraft sites across the 
country, including radars, command 
and control systems and SAM missiles 
in Tikrit, Bayji, Samarra. Basrah. Ash 
5huatybah and An Nasiriyah Major air 
and military bases at Mosul, Tikrit, Tajl 
and Rashid in Baghdad and other 
airfields at Al-Sahra (near Tlrkit), AI- 
Asawa, Habanfyya, Al Kut and Talil 
housing pilotless planes and attack 
helicopters. 


Rashidiyeh, northern suburbs of 
Baghdad: centrifuge development. 
Jebei Makhoul: Presidential site 
Al Tajl complex near Baghdad: long- 
range missile development and missile 
repair. 

Al Kindi. Mosul. Missile development 
sice. 

AJ Karama. North-western suburbs of 
Baghdad. Missile guidance and control 
Ibn al Haytham. north of Baghdad. 
Missile research and development 
center. 

Al Rafah. 60km W of Baghdad of 
Baghdad. Missile engines. 


Iraqi Intelligence Service HQ and ten 
other offices in Baghdad. 

Special Security HQ in Baghdad 
Military Intelligence HQ in Baghdad 
Special Republican Guard bases in 
Baghdad: Republican palace. 
Radwaniyeh, Am any a. Hal Al Jihad. 
Saddam International Airport. Regional 
Hqs and barracks in Tikrit, Mosul. Jebei 
Makhoul 

General Security Service HQ In 
Baghdad (AJ Baladiat area) 


main grain silo in Tikrit. 

Oil refinery in Basra 

The house of Saddam's daughter Hala 

in Baghdad. 

the main Presidential Palace complex. 
The Baath Party Academy in Baghdad. 
The Baath Party headquarters 
presidential Secretariat 
radio and TV transmitters and 
jammers. 

Baghdad Museum of Natural History 
Ministry of Labor and 5ocial Affairs 
Al Mustansiriya University 


Airfields 


Tbtal Sites Attacked: 5 
Destroyed/Damaged: 0 
Moderate/Light Damage: 5 
Under Assessment 1 


Economic Targets j 


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Children gather around a huge crater yesterday caused by a missile attack late on Saturday on the Labour and Social Affairs Ministry in Baghdad 

‘Do you think our soldiers were 
.crazy enough to stay in barracks?’ 


The View From 
The Ground 


after THREE days of missile 
attacks the tops of many tall 
buildings in Baghdad are 
cracked open like concrete 
eggs, the upper stories reduced 
to a tangle of twisted metaland 
^ broken masonry. But most 
Iraqis think the prime target of 
the bombing - Saddam's 
regime - is undamaged. 

“It will all be rebuilt in two 
or three months," said an Iraqi 
friend. “After all. half the pop- 
ulation is unemployed so we are 
not short of labour. Saddam 
knew he could take a limited at- 
tack Hke this and declare him- 
self a winner. If the aim was to 

3 eaken the regime in Iraq then 
Was not serious." 

Already yesterday, govern- 
ment officials were sounding a 
triumphant note. “"We knew 
they could not go on firing 
three hundred missiles a day." 
said one. He refused to com- 
ment on military casualties but 
added: “Do you think our sol- 
diers were crazy enough to 
stay in their barracks?" 

The short bombardment 
showed that Iraq has no de- 
fence against cruise missiles. 
The anti-aircraft fire was mea- 
gre compared to the fireworks 
^pf 1991. But the fact that Sad- 


by Patrick cockburn 
in Baghdad 

dam Hussein, the Iraqi leader; 
is still in place at the end of the 
air assault seems to be evi- 
dence to many Iraqis that he 
has seen off another challenge 
to his rule by the United States 
and Britain- the elephant and 
the rat, in the unkind compar- 
ison of Tariq Aziz the Iraqi 
Deputy Prime Minister. 

Security in Baghdad is tight 
Armed Baath party militia are 
on street corners. Outside the 
capital it is impossible to know 
at first hand what is happening 
But the willingness of the gov- 
ernment to take journalists to 
Basra, near the Kuwaiti border 
in the south, suggests that it is 
confident that they are fully in 
control, despite the fact that 
some of the bombardment was 
specifically aimed at destabil- 
ising Republican Guard units in 
the area. 

It was not a war without 
victims. In the first two days the 
Iraqi Ministry of Health says 68 
civilians were killed in and 
around Baghdad- Indirect 
casualties are likely to be far 
greater. Much of Iraq’s 22 
million people live on or just 



Business as usual: A man chooses fruit at a market in the centre of Baghdad yesterday Peter Dejong/AP 


below subsistence level. 

Unicef said that a survey it 
carried out in October showed 
that one in five Iraqi infants are 
suffering from chronic or acute 
malnutrition. 

"With so many people only 


just surviving from day to day 
it does not take much to push 
them below the breadline. For 
instance, every morning in 
normal times thousands of 
labourers gather in different 
parts of Baghdad waiting to be 


hired. They earn the equivalent 
of about one pound a day. Fbr 
the last three days they have 
not been seen. 

“People like that have noth- 
ing to fall back on," said Mar- 
garet Hassan, the head of Care 


International, the aid organi- 
sation in Iraq. "There are 
people here so poor that they 
cannot even afford the 200 di- 
nars - 11 pence - which it takes 
to buy the official food radon. 
For a month, I was in a hospi- 


tal in Kerbala (in the south) 
where they had no food to feed 
the mothers of newborn in- 
fants. Children over the age of 
one were getting a cup of tea 
and a piece of bread in the 
morning and nothing else." 

In many ways Iraq has be- 
come less vulnerable to high 
technology attack because it 
has returned, after eight years 
of sanctions, to a pre-techno- 
logical age. There is not a lot left 
to destroy. 

In Saddam City, the huge 
working-class district of east 
Baghdad, a local doctor; who did 
not want to be named, said: 
“The economic collapse here 
even generates jobs. People 
no longer use the telephone, but 
send messages by hand Street 
cleaning is done by men with 
buckets not garbage trucks. 
Of course they get paid very lit- 
tle money." 

Amidst such massive depri- 
vation a few hundred missiles 
- frightening though they are as 
they strike - make little impact 
on the lives of ordinary Iraqis. 
It is unlikely to make them 
rise up against the govern- 
ment, even if they were able to 
do so against such a tightly 
organised security system. 
This is the view of every Iraqi 
I have spoken to in Baghdad. 
One man summed up the views 
of all the others: “In the end, it 
was not really serious." 


BATTLE 

LINES 

SADDAM HUSSEIN 

“You were up ro the level 
that your leadership and 
brother and comrade 



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Saddam Hussein had 
hoped you would be 
at.. .so God rewarded you 
and delighted your hearts 
with the crown of victory. 
“God will repay well and 
crown your heart with 
clear victory, which will be 
attested by your enemies" 

TONY BLAIR 

“We have severely 
damaged Saddam's ability 
to produce and repair 
ballistic missiles. 

"We have severely sec 
back his chemical, 
biological and unmanned 
drone programmes. 

This. ..weakens his ability 
to threaten his 
neighbours. Just because 
we can't get in the cage 
and strike him down, it 
doesn't mean chat we 
should leave the cage 



untouched. What we have 
done is put him firmly 
back in his cage." 

"We have reduced the 
danger Saddam poses, 
consistent with common 
sense and a proportionate 
use of force. 1 recognise 
that not everyone around 
the world has welcomed 
this action but 1 believe, 
at heart, most know its 
necessity. 

We are ready to strike 
again if he again poses a 
threat to his neighbours, 
or develops weapons of 
mass destruction." 

BILL CLINTON 

(after impeachment) 

We are a good and 
decent country but we 
have significant 
challenges we have to 
face. 

“in order to do it right. 



we have to have some 
atmosphere of decency 
and civility, some 
presumption of good 
faith, some sense of 
proportionality and 
balance in bringing 
judgment against those 
who are in different 
parties. 

‘We must stop the politics 
of personal destruction." 


Foreign Office to 
sell containment 


BRITAIN’S DIPLOMATIC OFFENSIVE 


BRITAIN BEGAN a diplomatic 
offensive yesterday aimed at se- 
cerning international support 
™for its doctrine of “contain- 
ment" of President Saddam 
Hussein and winning over sev- 
eral European allies who are 
deeply unhappy with the Anglo- 
American bombing of Iraq. 

The crisis in the Gulf has 
demonstrated once more that 
Bri tain has a special relation- 
ship with the US. The phrase 
does not require inverted com- 
mas. It is a fact of life, cemented 
by history, shared language 
and intensive military and 
intelligence co-operation, ooz- 
ing up through the bureaucracy 
to affect whichever British gov- 
ernment is in power 

This time «g»in T an almost 
instinctive mechanism has 
functioned. But not to every- 
one’s liking . Fbr all the Prime 
Minister’s claims of backing for 
the raids among European and 
ttsderate Arab opinion, British 
•Officials acknowledge that 
many fences must be mended 
and many reassurances given. 


By Rupert Cornwell 

And the signs already are 
that “containment" could run 
into big problems over the 
future of United Nations sanc- 
tions against Baghdad. 

Tony Blair’s assertion that 
sanctions must be tightened 
seemed to be contradicted yes- 
terday by President Jacques 
Chirac of France, who insisted 
that the top priority must be to 
improve conditions erf life for or- 
dinary Iraqis. Urging a “pro- 
found review" of the 
relationship between Iraq and 
the UN, Mr Chirac said the time 
had come to re-examine the oil 
embargo, which was imposed 
after the 1991 Gulf Wan 

Britain insists the embargo, 
eased by more recent oD-for- 
food deals, should stay- at least 
until the unlikely event that UN 
weapons inspectors are 
allowed back into Iraq and cer- 
tify that its chemicaL nuclear 
and biological weapons pro- 
grammes are no more. 

But France wants at least an 


easing of the sanctions, while 
providing safeguards against 
Iraqi rearmament It would be 
“a politically delicate" ques- 
tion, Mr Chirac acknowledged, 
with some understatement 
Britain’s efforts to explain 
itself get under way in earnest 
this morning when the For- 
eign Secretary, Robin Cook, 
holds a two-hour meeting in 
London with his German coun- 
terpart, Joschka Fischer; whose 
country takes over the rotating 
EU Presidency in 10 days’ time, 
and who has publicly lamented 
the bombings of Iraq. 

Afterwards, the Fbreign Sec- 
retary has set aside most of the 
afternoon for phone calls to his 
opposite numbers in Russia 
and EU countries including 
Italy and France, in which he 
will “be seeking to win them 
round to our ideas of contain- 
ment”, officials said last night 
The task may be difficult If 
France could be charitably de- 
scribed as ambivalent about the 
bombing, Italy was explicitly 
opposed, while Moscow with- 



French President Jacques Chirac yesterday Reuters 


drew its ambassador to London 
in protest - though the Gov- 
ernment strenuously insists 
that there has been no long- 
term setback to co-operation 
with Russia. And the attacks 
could have serious implica- 
tions for future European de- 
fence strategy. 

At one level, whatever Mr 
Blair says, they will cast doubt 
on Britain's commitment to 
the new “European defence 
identity" he wishes to impart to 
the EU, whereby the Union on 
occasion could take military 


action without the direct 
involvement of the US. 

At another, the strikes - 
effectively taken without con- 
sultation with either Britain’s 
EU or Nato partners - may 
increase resistance to an “out- 
of-area” function for the. 
alliance, turning into some- 
thing akin to a global policeman. 

This is already likely to be 
the principal item of contro- 
versary at next April’s 50th an- 
niversary Nato summit in 
Washingtomcharting the al- 
liance's post-Cold War role. 


Sidelined Yelts: 
warns the Allie 

World Reaction 


RELIEF THAT the bombard- 
ment of Iraq has ended was the 
common emotion across the 
international community yes- 
terday combined in many cases 
with an urgent desire to avoid 
a repeat attack. 

Though the most vocal crit- 
icism of the American and 
British action came from 
opposition groups in Arab coun- 
tries, Boris \feltsin, the Russian 
President, issued an urgent 
warning against further use of 
military force against Iraq. 

“Reason has finally pre- 
vailed," he said in a written 
statement “It still remains to 
fulty assess the negative polit- 
ical consequences the bom- 
bardment led to. not to speak 
of the victims among the civil- 
ian population and the signifi- 
cant damage to the Iraqi 
economy, which was already 
bled dry by the sanctions." 

Mr Yeltsin's stance of the 
past few days is the strongest 
position he has taken against 
his putative political friends in 
London and Washington. “It is 


BY DARIUS SANA! 


absolutely clear that the use of 
force only complicated the so- 
lution of the Iraqi problem," he 
said. “Nobody has the right to 
violate the UN charter," he 
added. The Russian President 
was not informed in advance of 
the attacks and despite his op- 
position has appeared helpless 
to stop them. 

Other Western leaders, 
while avoiding criticism of the 
action, were careful to empha- 
sise the need for peaceful 
progress in the impasse 
between Iraq and the UN. Ger- 
many and Japan urged Bagh- 
dad to start working with the 
UN again to avert the possibil- 
ity of another military strike. 

“The German government 
therefore calls on Iraq to 
resume its co-operation with 
the UN," Chancellor Gerhard 
Schroder said, a comment 
echoed by Japanese Foreign 
Minister Masahiko Komura. 

Although none of the leaders 
of Iraq’s Muslim neighbours 


made any public statements, 
officials in some pro-Western 
Gulf Arab countries expressed 
their reservations about 
allowing bombardment to be 
launched from their territory. 

In Rabat, the Moroccan cap- 
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Bookies lose on Spice Christmas 


Slade, who will forever reap the reward of their festive No 1 

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IT IS as much part of the fes- 
tivities as turkey and the 
Queen's broadcast The Christ- 
mas No 1 marks the time when 
the music business abandons 
its cool image and unleashes 
catchy; sentimental and down- 
right silly singles on the charts. 

Yesterday, Radio l an- 
nounced that the Spice Girls 
have equalled the Beatles’ hat- 
trick with their third consecu- 
tive No 1, "Goodbye”, beating off 
dose competition from Chef's 
“Chocolate Salty Balls". Denise 
and Johnny's "Especially For 
"You” was number three with 


By Glenda Cooper 

Cher’s former chart-topper 
“Believe" at number four. 

The bookmakers William 
Hill estimate they have lost 
£250,000 over the past three 
years due to the Spice Girls 
making it to No 1. They are al- 
ready quoting the Girls as 
favourites for next year at 2-1 
and are nervously looking at 
the weather (the double bet on 
the Spice Girls and a white 
Christmas at 8-1 could cost 
them an awful lot). 

John McKie. editor of 


Smash Hits, says he was not 
surprised by the Spice Girls’ su- 
premacy: “They are the biggest 
pop act on the planet, they re- 
lease a single the week before 
Christmas - it’s not exactly 
rocket science to see they were 
going to make it" 

But he added that it is not 
always as dear cut “Christmas 
is also the time when people 
that would never usually get to 
No l can make it , like Mr Blob- 
by or the Teletubbies.” 

While the rest of the country 
quails at the thought of Slade's 
“Merry Xmas Everybody" 


(19731, St Winifred's School 
Choir’s “There’s No One Quite 
T.ibt* Gr andma " (1980), or 
“Long Haired Lover from Liv- 
erpool" Little Jimmy Osmond 
(1972) blaring out again, for 
record companies the Christ- 
mas No 1 remains crucial. 

Estimates suggest a Christ- 
mas single can sell three times 
as many copies as a normal 
chart topper; with the festive 
season accounting for 40 per 
cent of profits. “A Christmas 
No 1 is a landmark in the cal- 
endar," said Steve Redmond, 
editor-in-chief of Music Week. 


“A Christmas single can also 
propel sales of an album." 

While the Spice Girls took 
few risks, their latest offering 
enjoying a sophisticated PR 
campaign for weeks, the spin- 
off from the cartoon Soutb 
Park, voiced by 1970s soul 
legend Isaac Hayes, took a 
more low-key approach. The 
Chef single bad little airplay 
due to its risque lyrics, and the 
record company's approach, 
says Mr Redmond, “was a man 
dressed as Chef walking up and 
down Oxford Street with a plac- 
ard saying ‘Buy my record’." 


POLICE WERE searching des- 
perately yesterday for a two- 
year-old girl after her mother 
was found murdered in her 
home in UverpooL 

It is believed that the woman, 
22-year-old Sharon Lestei; had 
been dead for more than two 
days when her mother found 
her body. She had been beaten 
and repeatedly stabbed. 

Merseyside police issued an 




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body was found at home 

urgent appeal for information 
about the whereabouts of Ms 
Lester’s daughter, Jade. It is 
thought she was last seen nine 
days ago, a wee* before Ms 
Lester's body was found at her 
home in the Kensington area of 
thedty. 

Detectives have launched a 
nationwide hunt for Jade. They 
said it was now “critical” they 
found the toddler’s father; who 
is believed to be from the area 
but lives elsewhere. 

Yesterday Merseyside po- 
lice officers were interviewing 
Ms Lester’s boyfriend, John 
Park, who comes from the Tue 
Brook area of Liverpool They 


BY Cathy Comerford 

had appealed for him to come 
forward in toe hope that the girl 
may have been with him. 

Detective Superintendent 
Russ Whlsh, the officers) charge 
of the investigation, said: “We 
just do not know where she is. 
We would like to think she is safe 
and well with somebody who is 
taltinggbod care of thefittie girt 
wherever that may be. But at 
this moment in time we just 
haven’t got a due.” 

Police are particularly keen 
to speak to two men seen with 
a van at the house on Saturday 
about two hours before Ms 
Lester’s body was found. A 
police spokesman said: They 
may be unconnected, but we 
are looking for more sightings 
of the van and for the man or ' 
men to come forward and tell | 
us what they were doing there.” 

Ms Lester's body was found 
in a downstairs room at the 
back of the house, police said. 
Officers were unable to confirm 
whether anything had been 
stolen. A police spokeswoman 
told The Independent: “We are 
trying to establish if apy of the 
little girl's dothes are missing 
but obviously it is a very diffi- 
cult time for the family.’' 

House-to-house inquiries 
were being extended last night 
as forensic scientists searched 
for dues at the murder scene. 
Relatives, friends and health 
workers who have come into 
contact with Jade are being 
traced, the spokeswoman said. 
Neighbours were also being 
asked to cone forward with any 
information that might help to 
trace the missing child. 


Internet tries to 
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Lockerbie: 


10 years 
on and 


families 


pray for 
the truth 


AN EMOTIONAL warning to the 
British and American govern- 
ments not to jeopardise a trial 
of the two Libyans suspected of 
the Lockerbie bombing was 
delivered yesterday on the eve 
of the tenth anniversary of the 
Pan Am 103 mass murder. 

Bert Ammerman. a 52 -year- 
old high school principal from 
New Jersey, stood outside a 
church in the Borders town 
where he spent nine days wait- 
ing to identify his dead broth- 
er, and expressed the 
frustration of the victims' fam- 
ilies in their search for the 
truth. “I couldn't care less if 
these guys are found guilty or 
not. They are only what we 
Americans would call ‘guppies’ 
- small pawns," Mr Ammerman 
said after attending the morn- 
ing mass at Holy Trinity 
Catholic Church. 

‘‘A trial will release the evi- 
dence and that's the most im- 
portant thing. If you don’t have 
3 trial you are never gong to find 
the truth. And if a trial doesn't 
happen, that’s a scandalous 
issue on the heads of the British 
and American governments.” 

There has long been suspi- 
cion among victims' relatives 
that it has suited security ser- 
vices not to lace the spotlight 
of a trial. 

Mr Ammerman contrasted 
the readiness of the US to wage 
war in the Gulf with its tardi- 
ness over an atrocity in which 
189 Americans died. 


By Stephen Goodwin 
S cotland Correspondent 


Some 50 relatives and 
friends of American victims 
are expected to be in Locker- 
bie today. 

At 7.03pm. during a memo- 
rial service, there will be a 
minute’s silence, marking the 
moment 10 years ago when a 
terrorist bomb exploded in the 
aircraft at 31,000 feet, killing all 
259 people on board and ll on 
the ground in an inferno as the 
fuel-laden wing section 
ploughed into their homes. 

There will be four simulta- 
neous services - in Lockerbie, 
attended by Prince Philip; in 
Westminster Abbey, attended 
by the Tony Blair: at Arlington 
National Cemetery, Virginia, 
attended by President Bill Clin- 
ton; and at Syracuse in New 
York State, which lost 35 uni- 
versity students. 

Under a dear blue sky on the 
last Sunday before Christmas, 
Lockerbie did not look like a 
town overshadowed by tragedy. 
A duster of about 20 reporters 
and photographers opposite 
Holy Trinity church attracted a 
few curious glances. 

But Lockerbie is tired of the 
media and the grim notoriety 
the disaster has brought it 

After identifying his brother 
Mr Ammerman hoped never to 
come back to Lockerbie. - I 
wanted always to remember 
the carnage, the smell of gaso- 



Prescott 
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Lib-Lab 
deals 


by Andrew Grice 
P olitical Editor 


Bert Ammerman, from New Jersey, crosses the field where the Pan Am cockpit fefl. His brother was killed in the bombing Adam Butler 


line, tiie debris and the bodies." 

But as a leading represen- 
tative of the American victims’ 
families, he has made a suc- 
cession of visits in the campaign 
for answers to the tragedy. 

Along the way. he has made 
friends and seen the town's 
physical scars heal oven Sher- 
wood Crescent, where Locker- 
bie's victims were incinerated 
in their homes, has been rebuilt 
and looks no different to any 
other quiet, residential street 

His voice choking, Mr Am- 
merman told the congregation 
at Holy Trinity church of the 
Christmas Ere a decade ago 
when he sat in the same pew. 


“trying to figure out what in 
God's name was happening". 

His brother Tommy, who 
worked for an Arab-owned 
shipping line, had been on Pan 
Am flight 103. 

His body was found later on 
the lonely hillside at Tunder- 
garth, four miles from the town 
where the aircraft’s nose cone 
felL Now Mr Ammerman feels 
able to bring his daughters 
Christine, 21, and Megan, 19, to 
Scotland to see the town's 
memorials to the dead. 

Mr Ammerman later began 
an emotional pilgrimage 
around Lockerbie, starting at 
Dryfesdale cemetery’s garden 


of remembrance. There he left 
a bouquet at the memorial in- 
scribed with the names of the 
victims, and ran his fingers 
over his brother's name as he 
said a few words in private. 

The card on the bouquet 
read; “Tommy, you did not die 
in vain". 

Mr Ammerman said anoth- 
er card read: “In loving mem- 
ory from a loving brother". 

Afterwards he said; “In 10 
years I have said a lot of thing* 
but today in church and here it 
is for me personalty the most 
personal and emotional day 
for 10 years.” 

He said that the memorial 


was a “simple but powerful’ 7 
one for the 270 victims. 

Revealing that he had spo- 
ken a few words to his dead 
brother Mr Ammerman said: “I 
said, You didn't die in vain, we 
have done the best we can. 
We’re not finished yet but we 
are near a trial’.’’ 

Mr Ammerman hopes that 
his next trip win be to the 
Netherlands where, if the 
Libyan leader Muammar 
Gaddafi hands them over; the 
two suspects will stand trial 
under Scottish law. Agreement 
to a trial in a third country had 
“boxed the colonel in’ 7 , accord- 
ing to Mr Ammerman. 


He is anxious that the 
British and American govern- 
ments do nothing to give Libya 
a pretext not to hand over the 
suspects. Western insistence on 
the pair serving any sentence 
in a Scottish jail if convicted, is 
one big area of concern. The 
bombardment of Baghdad 
could also damage prospects 
fora trial 

Mr Ammerman said be 
could not quarrel with the ac- 
tion taken by the US and 
Britain over Iraq, but he ad- 
mitted “selfishly" he thought it 
was a setback and was likely to 
delay any hand-over and arrest 
of the suspects. 


JOHN PRESCOTT'S simmering 
anger at Tbny Blair’s decision 
to forge closer links with the 
Liberal Democrats boiled over 
in public yesterday. 

The Deputy Prime Minister 
said: “I am not a great fan of it 
myself I think if you have a 
majority of 179, you get on with, 
delivering the promises.” 

Interviewed on BBCi’s 
Breakfast With Frost, he de- 
fended Mr Blair’s discussions 
with Paddy Ashdown over con- 
stitutional reform but deliber- 
ately stopped short of backing 
their recent agreement to ex-, 
tend it to other policy issues. 

“Wtearea separate party" he 
said. “I am not a great man for 
coalitions." Asked tfhe mightend 
up sitting in the same Cabinet as 
Mr Ashdown, Mr Prescott 
replied bluntly. “Not under the 
way I have described it" 

The Deputy Prime Muns- 
ter's comments will not come 
as a surprise to Mr Blair. At a 
Christmas party for Labour 
stafE, Mr Prescott is said to have 
joked that the party would turn 
into the Nouveau Democrats in 
10 years. But Mr Blair will be 
worried that his deputy has 
publicly voiced his doubts. They 
emerged as Mr Ashdown faced 
a fresh burst of criticism from 
his party’s ranks over his agree- 
ment with Mr Blair to extend co- 
operation between the parties. 

In a pamphlet published 
today by the Centre for Reform 
think-tank, two senior Liberal 
Democrat figures expressed 
fears that the party will lose its 
distinctive identity. 

Lord Wallace, a frontbench 
spokesman on foreign affairs, 
also said that although Mr 
Blair’s strategy sought to “ab- 
sorb” the Liberal Democrats, he 
believed the final destinations 
of the two parties would r emain 
separate. 

Neil Stockley, the Liberal 
Democrats' former director of 
policy, said: “The [Liberal Dem- 
ocrat] party must develop its 
own distinctive, branded politi- 
cal message.” 




RUC sweeps waste 
ground for corpses 


In Brief 


*- •• 




A HAPPY CHRISTMAS IS 


JUST A SWI FTC ALL AWAY 


POLICE IN Belfast have begun 
a search for the bodies of two 
men, believed to hare been ab- 
ducted and killed by the IRA in 
the city 20 years ago. 

Royal Ulster Constabulary 
officers yesterday broke up 
concrete steps at Glen colin 
Way, an area of open ground 
dose to houses in the republi- 
can west Belfast district This 
followed an investigation of the 
area on Saturday, when police 
used devices similar to mine- 
detectors to scan the ground. 

According to one uncon- 
firmed report the search fol- 
lowed a telephone tip-off to a 
relatives' group, which may 
hare come from the IRA. 

The development has raised 
hopes of progress in finding the 
bodies of more than a dozen 
people missing since the Sev- 
enties, who have come to be 
known as “the disappeared”. 


by David McKjttrjck 
I reland Correspondent 


The present operation is a 
search for the bodies of Brian 
McKinney, 22, and John Mc- 
Cloiy, 18, who vanished in west 
Belfast in 1978. They are as- 
sumed to have been killed and 
buried by the IRA. 

McKinney’s mother Mar- 
garet said: “The search gives 
me some hope and I prefer this 
to nothing - at least something 
is being done. But I am wary of 
being too hopeful I have been 
left shattered too many times 
in the past 

“I do fee! that Brian is buried 
somewhere in that area and I 
hope that this search will bring 
results. I just want his body to 
be found. I want to be like 
every other mother of victims 
of the Troubles, to have a grave 
that I can visit and tend.” 


Many families of the disap- 
peared have been involved in a 
four-year campaign, pressing 
the IRA to reveal where their 
relatives are buried, but 
progress has been slow. 

The IRA recently admitted 
that the burials had caused 
“incalculable an guiah to their 
families" but claimed that pin- 
pointing the graves was 
extremely difficult because of 
changes in IRA leadership, the 
deaths of some of its members 
and the passage of time. 

■ More than 170 paramilitary 
prisoners, both loyalist and 
republican, will be released 
from prison this week for the 
annual 10 days’ home leave. 
With more than 200 already 
freed under the terms of the 
Good Friday Agreement, this 
means that fewer than 100 in- 
mates will remain behind bars 
at Christmas. 


Branson balloon dodges storms 

AFTER SURVIVING a night of fierce storms, the Virgin 
entrepreneur Richard Branson and his crew soared over 
central Asia last night heading for the Himalayas on day 
three of their attempt to circle the globe in a balloon. 
“Somebody was looking over us last night,” Mr Branson 
said. “We not only missed the storm but also missed Iraq 
by 60 miles, Iran by seven miles and Russia by io miles ” 


Police car swept away in flood 

TWO POLICE officers escaped injury when their patrol car 
was washed away in a flash flood in Cornwall on Saturday 
mght. The officers climbed out of a window and on to the 
roof of their car after it was swept 100 metres 
downstream in the Gweek area. They then managed to 
leap to dry land. The car reportedly filled with water 


Nobel prizewinner dies at 84 

PROFESSOR ALAN Hodgkin, one of Britain’s most 
distinguished biologists, has died aged 84, his family said 
yesterdaySir Alan won the Nobel Prize for meKL to 
1963 with Professor Andrew Huxley and Sir SS 
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Mummified body found in Suffolk 

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THE MILLENNIUM Dome is a 
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ble birth of Christianity 2,000 
years ago, the Archbishop of 
York, Dr David Hope, said 
yesterday. 

The Archbishop made an 
impassioned attack on the con- 
troversial project calling for 
Christians to remember the 
humble origins of Christmas. 

Dr Hope drew a contrast 
between the nativity and what 
he calls the “self-glorification 


By Cathy comehford 


of man” which he said the 
Dome represents. “What a 
stark contrast there is here 
with the way in which it is pro- 
posed we are to celebrate in a 
year’s time the second millen- 
nium of this birth,” he said in a 

newspaper interview, 

“The great humility of the 
manger has now become the 
hubris of a dome, a dome to cel- 
ebrate the apotheosis of man 
rather than the glory of God 


“The celebration and prepa- 
ration for the second millenni- 
um of the Saviour’s birth ought 
to be a ... recognition of our 
h uman fragility, frailty and 
finiteness. ” 

His words are likely to in- 
flame feelings among some 
Christians that the Dome lacks 
a Christian emphasis. 

Dr George Carey, Archbish- 
op of Canterb ur y, appeared un- 
moved by the latest Dome row 
yesterday and was said to be 
fully supportive of the project. 


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HOME NEWS/11 



Labour’s musical 



SIR SIMON Rattle, Britain's 
greatest living conductor and 
an outspoken critic of Labour's 
policy towards arts funding, 
has revealed that he intends to 
leave the country. 

Sir Simon, 43, who left the 
City of Birmingham Symphony 
Orchestra iCBSO) in August, 
has previously voiced his frus- 
tration at the low priority given 
to music teaching in schools 
and the paucity of arts funding. 

The conductor's plans for his 
future are disclosed in Simon 
Rattle: Moving On, a BBC2 doc- 
umentary to be broadcast next 
Sunday During an interview he 
said: “I wouldn’t be surprised i£ 
whatever the next job 1 took on, 
it was not here in Britain. There 
are a lot of extraordinary thin g s 
happening in Europe, where 
they have the facilities to do it” 

Friends of Sir Simon’s, in- 
cluding the pianists Alfred Bren- 
del and Imogen Cooper and the 
baritone Thomas Allen, also ap- 
pear on the programme to talk 


By Jane Hughes 


about the conditions that would 
encourage him to stay. 

The conductor's comments 
have been interpreted by arts 
world insiders as an attempt to 
put pressure on the Govern- 
ment for more resources. In re- 
ality, there are few jobs in British 
classical music that would suit 
such a high-profile and inde- 
pendently minded figure and 
SirSimon already’ has freelance 
commitments around the world. 
Speculation about his future has 
been rife since he left the CBSO 
after 18 years. The Berlin Phil- 
harmonic has been a possibility 
but it is unlikely to offer him the 
post of musical director unless 
sure he would accept 

The Vienna Philharmonic, 
with whom he has agreed a 
recording and touring deal is 
another possibility. The or- 
chestra's £lOm annual grant is 
five times the public subsidy 
awarded to the four London or- 


chestras, but it does not have a 
musical directorship post 
Sir Simon was also linked to 
the cash-strapped Royal Opera 
House before the current mu- 
sical director, Bernard Hai tink. 
decided to rescind his resigna- 
tion and stay on another year 
AO the American orchestras 
are desperate to woo him: last 
yean the Philadelphia Orches- 
tra said it would have loved to 
hire him and Cleveland offered 
to build him an opera house. But 
working in the United States 
would be unlikely to offer Sir 
Simon the free reign in pro- 
gramming that he enjoyed in 
Birmingham and which allowed 
him to turn the orchestra into a 
world-class act 

As Curtis Price, the principal 
of the Royal Academy of Music, 
pointed out one of Sir Simon's 
greatest achievements has been 
to build up a loyal public “with 100 
per cent capacity in most con- 
certs, however adventurous the 
progr amm ing". Against a back- 


drop of fallin g London audi- 
ences, his departure would be a 
massive blow to the interna- 
tional standing of British classi- 
cal music. Indeed a group of his 
supporters have become so con- 
cerned that they want to create 
a new concert hall and orches- 
tra to encourage him to stay. 

Sir Simon warned recently. 
“Running a British orchestra is 
wonderful but very hard. We 
spend our time jumping 
through hoops trying to prove 
our right to exist at alL" 

Recently his vision of a mil- 
lennium sits festhai in Birm- 
ingham came under threat as the 
Millennium Commission and the 
Arts Council backed away from 
providing more tiian £6m in fund- 
ing for the project. 

Wherever the conductor 
goes, however, he is unlikely to 
sever all links with Britain. A 
post in Berlin would take less 
than six months a year and he 
is scheduled for appearances in 
Birmingham until 20t)3. 


The artistic Opposition 


Sir Simon Rattle: ‘We spend our time jumping through hoops trying to prove our right to exist' 


Andrew Lloyd Weber 
was said to have 
threatened to leave 
Britain if Labour won 
the ecection. a claim he j_ 
denied. Lord Uoyd- 
Weber, composer of a 
string of West End 
hits, including Evita 
and Cats, was angered by an early day 
motion claiming his reported intention 
was an incentive to vote Labour. 



Sir Peter Hall, one of 
Britain's grearest 


Damon Albarn of the 
pop group Blur was 


x theatre directors, is 
< heading for Los 
‘ Angeles to direct a 


among the cream of 
Cool Britannia's music 
industry who turned 

x 

; Shakespeare season 


against the 


after his bid for 


Government in the 


^ E500.000 Arts Council 

funding for the Old 

m ^ 

New Musical Express 
in March, criticising 

•m 


Vic was turned down. Sir Peter was 
apparently told that there was already 
"enough serious theatre in London". 


Labour's policy on 
further education and the Welfare to 
Work plans among others. 




Memory is 
damaged 
by ecstasy 


A 


THE FIRST evidence has 
emerged of long-term memory 
damage caused by ecstasy, the 
drug taken by thousands of 
young people at rave clubs 
across Britain. 

A study of ecstasy users in 
the United States found that 
they suffered significant mem- 
ory loss several weeks after 
they stopped taking the drug. 

“Our study shows ecstasy 
can be associated with memory 
damage.” said Karen Bolls, as- 
sociate professor of neurology 
at Johns Hopkins Bayview 
Medical Centre in Baltimore. 

"The main message is that 
.heavy use of ecstasy can affect 
- ' Memory and these effects can 
persist after it has left the 
body,” Dr Bolla said. 

The scientists compared 24 
ecstasy users with a group of 
youngsters who had never 
taken the drug and found that 
the users suffered a signifi- 
cantly impaired ability to recall 
what they had seen or heard. 

Those who took part had to 
be drug free for at least two 
weeks before being tested to en- 
sure that withdrawal symp- 
toms did not affect the results, 
which are to be published in the 
j ournal Neurology. 

George Ricaurte, another 
member of the Johns Hopkins 
team, said all types of memory 
were affected. ; "Tests show that 
heavy ecstasy users have dam- 
age to their visual and verbal 
memory,’' he said. 

Visual memory allows a per- 
son to recall objects they had 
seen earlier and verbal mem- 
ory is the ability to remember 
information read aloud. 

"Men were affected more 
than women, which may be 
due to differences in the way the 
brain works in the two sexes or 
because of hormonal influ- 


By Steve Connor 

Science Editor 


ences, such as oestrogen hav- 
ing a protective influence,” Pro- 
fessor Bolla said. 

The study linked heavy ec- 
stasy use with a fall in serotonin 
levels, a crucial chemical mes- 
senger in the brain. Professor 
Bolla said they defined heavy 
users as those who took more 
than one ecstasy pill a week. 

An analysis of the cerebral 
spinal fluid of users showed that 
ecstasy can damage the nerve 
cells in the brain that produce 
serotonin, which regulates me- 
mory as well as mood, appetite 
perception, pain, sexual activity 
and sleep, Professor Bolla said. 

Ecstasy, the common name 
for the chemical MDMA, is 
structurally similar to mesca- 
line, a natural hall ucinogenic 
drug and amphetamine, which 
acts as a stimulant 

People who take ecstasy say 
they experience euphoria and 
happiness but the drug is also 
associated with feelings of 
lethargy and depression. It has 
been linked with a number of 
deaths in otherwise healthy 
young people. 

A recent survey found that 
IS per cent of university stu- 
dents had taken ecstasy, which 
first became popular on the 
clubbing scene in 1989. 

Professor Andy Parrott, 
head of psychology at the Uni- 
versity of East London, told a 
conference in London earlier 
this month that the more the 
drug is studied, the more prob- 
lems are uncovered. 

“The strands of evidence we 
can pull together suggest that 
MDMA may indeed be neuro- 
toxic for humans. What we 
don't yet know is bow long-term 
those problem are,” he said. 


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Monday 21 December iggg 


HOME NEWS/12 * 


Briton jailed 
over heroin 
faces retrial 


A BRITISH woman who tried to 
smuggle heroin out of Pakistan 
is facing the possibility of a fur- 
ther 10 years in a Karachi jail 
- despite having already served 
her prison sentence. 

The Fb reign Office is inves- 
tigating the case of Rosemarie 
Moriey, 31. a single mother. 
She was due to return to 
Britain earlier this month after 
her time in prison. Her treat- 
raent at the hands of the Pak- 
istani authorities, who pL*»n to 
try her again for the same 
crime, is a violation of human 
rights. International law and 
Pakistan’s constitution, say 
British legal campaigners. 

Ms Moriey and her 
boyfriend. Markus Mifad, both 
from London, were caught at 
Karachi airport with a akg of 
heroin each in July last yeae 
The drugs were hidden in the 
mechanism of their suitcases. 

Although the couple insisted 
they did not know what the 
packages in their luggage con* 
tained. they pleaded guilty to 
smuggling the drugs, believing 
their sentences would be 
lighter. Ms Moriey, who suffers 
from clinical depression, was 
sentenced to three years and 
nine months in prison but had 
been due for early release on 22 
December, after winning 
remission for teaching Eng- 
lish to children in Karachi 
Juvenile Jail where she is held. 

In September this year she 
learnt that she was to be 
charged again over the same 
incident, but this time with 
possession of drugs, rather 
than smuggling. 

RanaShamim. her legal rep- 
resentative in Karachi, said 
the charges had been brought 
under a new Pakistani law, 


by Cathy comebford 

which allows for someone who 
has been convicted of drug 
smuggling to be charged with 
possession and the case regis- 
tered a second time. 

Mr Shamirn said: M We are 
challenging this in the High 
Court as a direct violation of the 
constitution This law has not 
yet been tested but it contra- 
venes article 13a of the consti- 
tution. which says no person 
shall be prosecuted or pun- 



Rosemarie Moriey: Could 
be jailed for second time 


ished for the same crime more 
than once.*' 

Stephen Jakobi, founder of 
Rair Trials Abroad, which is 
campaigning on Ms Morley’s 
behalf; said: “It Is established 
in British and international law 
that a person cannot be tried 
again for the same offence. 1 ' 

He added that other British 
nationals and Europeans had 
suffered similar miscarriages of 
justice in Pakistan. “I am par- 
ticularly concerned for Rose- 


marie Moriey because I 
understand «h<» has been clin- 
ically depressed and because 
she is a singe parent,” he said 
“But there are others.” 

Ms Morley’s eight-year-old 
son, Matthew, has been staying 
with his grandparents Eric and 
Lama in London. The family 
had expected her to be home for 
Christmas. Mr Moriey; 67, said: 
“She is a bit headstrong, but she 
is a good girl, a good mother 
"We were all geared up to 
having her home. Then we 
beard about this other girl who 
pleaded guilty a second time, 
thinking it would get it over 
with, and got 10 years. 

“We are afraid this might 
happen to Rosemarie. ” 

A second British national. 
Mark Cornish, 37, also con- 
victed of smuggling heroin, 
could face a second charge de- 
spite, having already served 18 
months in jafl. 

His mother, Shirley Dun- 
ning, from Carshaton in Surras; 
said: “He was sentenced to 
four years but got remission. 

“I phoned the consulate to 
try to get a release date and 
they said, 'Don't bother As 
soon as he is released he will 
be rearrested’.” 

A Fbreign Office spokesman 
said: "Wfe are aware of the 
cases of Rosemarie Moriey and 
Mark Cornish. We do not 
believe that it is good criminal 
justice practice to try two sim- 
ilar offences arising out of the 
same facts separately. 

“We need to determine 
exactly what Rosemarie and 






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Nasa probe approaches asteroid 


THE FINAL approach has begun 
to put a spacecraft in orbit 
around an asteroid for the first 
time, in a manoeuvre that could 
one day result in robots mining 
the mineral-rich rocks of space. 

It will also be used to test 
ways of landing rockets cm as- 
teroids that are in danger of col- 
Mngwith Earth, to shift them 


Mark are charged with and if I into safer orbits. 


and how these charges differ 
from the previous charges and 
also why they are now bang 
charged with these offences.” 


Call to cut diesel damage 


Scientists from the American asteroids and how to approach 
National Aeronautics and Space them may one day be useful if 
Adminis tration (Nasa) yester- the Earth is ever threatened fay 
day fired the rocket engines of a collision. "It is prudent to 
a space probe flying beyond learn the p rop erties of these ob- 
Mars to accelerate it towards its jeds, ifone day we find one with 


by Steve Connor 
Science Editor 

The most difficult part of the 

mission began yesterday with 
a main engine bum to acceler- 
ate the spacecraft towards a 
rendezvous with the faster- 
moving asteroid. 

Carl FScber; a Nasa scientist, 
said that knowing more about 
asteroids and how to approach 
them may one day be useful if 
the Earth is ever threatened hy 
a collision. “It is prudent to 
learn the p rop erties of these ob- 



BRITAIN WILL today propose a 
massive Europe-wide cutback 
in particulates, one of the most 
harmful air pollutants. 

The microscopic particles 
of soot and other matter can col- 
lect deep in the lungs. They are 
thought to trigger up to 8,000 
premature deaths a year in 
tiie UK alone in people with res- 
piratory and heart diseases. 

The principal source of par- 
ticulates is diesel engines in lor- 
ries. buses and coaches. 

In Brussels today the Envi- 
ronment minister. Michael 
Meacher. will be urging his 


by Michael McCarthy 
Environment Correspondent 

counterparts from other EU 
member states to adopt strict 
new particulate limits, which 
would mean special emissions- 
reduction technology fitted to all 
new heavy diesel -engined ve- 
hicles in Europe by 2005. 

Europe's green ministers 
are already likely to agree that 
there should be a 30 per cent 
cutback on the current levels of 
particulate emissions from new 
vehicles from 2000, and the 
European Parliament has 


called for a farther 50 percent 
cutback by 2005. But Britain 
wants the farther reduction to 
be even tougher at 80 per cent. 

Other member states with 
heavy vehicle industries, espe- 
cially Italy are likely to oppose 

the plan on the grounds that it 
would be too expensive and dif- 
ficult But the Government be- 
lieves the technology already 
exists to allow it and says it is , 
not prohibitively expensive. 

Also on the agenda will be 
tough new limits (or another 
heavy vehicle pollutant, asides 
of nitrogen, known as Nox. 


final target Ektts, an asteroid the 
size of London. 

By the end of next month the 
Near spacecraft will have come 
alongside its quarry and begun 
the complex series of manoeu- 
vres designed to bring it with- 
in a few miles of the surface. 
The Near probe, which cost 
£13Bm, wiD for the next 12 
months photograph, measure, 
monitor and map Eros from 
orbit to make ft the most stud- 
ied asteroid to date. 

At the end of the year-long 
mission, in the first weeks of the 
new millennium, Nasa scien- 
tists hope to bring the probe to 
within a few feet of Eros, and 
even test land it on the aster- 
oid’s rock-bard surface. 


Millennium 
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our name on it and we have to 
do something about it” he said 

about LS08 asteroids that pass 
dose eooi^toEartt] and are big 
enough to pose, a threat if they 


An artist's impression of composed of silicates enriched 
the JE139m Near probe with metallic iron, The analysis 

of its composition will he^> to de- 
ever hit the planet A small as- termine fee part it played in the 
terrad just SSfl: wide exploded birth and evolution of the solar 
over fee Tunguska region of system, said Professor William 
Siberia in 1908* destroying over Bflyzxton,aNearscientistatAri- 
halfamfl&Hi acres of forest In zona University. 

1989, an asteroid 0.25 miles wide “This is the first time ever a 

and weighing 50 nrillinn tons spacecraft wffl orbit an asteroid 
came within 400,000 miles of There have been fly-bys and 


Earth, passing fee same point 
in space just six hours apart. 

Eros, a potato-shaped body 

25 mfles long and 9 miles wide, 
is 240 miTi inn mil pc away and 
poses no threat to Earth. But it 
offers scientists fee best op- 
portunity to find out more about 
the mysterious lumps of rods 
left over from the formation of 
the planets. 

Eros is an S-type asteroid 
composed of silicates enriched 
wife metallic irosz, The analysis 
of its composition wiD hefo to de- 
termine fee part it played in the 
birth and evolution of the solar 
system, said Professor William 
Boynton, a Near scientist at Ari- 
zona University. 

“This is the first tim e ever a 
spacecraftwfll ontitan asteroid 


snapshots, but not much in the 
way of quantitative scientific 
data,” he said. 

Robert Farquhar, of the 
Johns Hopkins University in 
Baltimore, where some of the 
Near instruments were built 
said: "What we know of aster- 
oids is very limited. But now 
we're going to go into orbit 
around an asteroid and study it 
intensely for a year. We expect 
to get astounding information.” 

Although ErdO is240 million 
miles from Earth, the Near 
probe has travelled more than 
L5 billion miles since its Launch 
in February 1996. It has flown 
an indirect route, which in- 
cluded a return trip to Earth to 

use the planet’s gravitational 
pull as a “slingshot” to throw 
fee probe back into space. 


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hare arrived on this desk 
and immediately been 
filed in the bin. But some 
firms have been respon- 
sive. A notable letter 
comes from Ahead Soft- 
ware about its Nero soft- 
ware, and was reported by 
Computing magazine. 
“Nero will properly 
process dates beyond Si 
December 1999," fee letter 
began. “However; Dos will 
not be able to read CDs 
wife file dates beyond 32 
December 1999 conecfly. 
The file date will be dis- 
played incorrectly. This is 
a Dos problem and not 
caused by Nero.” 

Quite. But is it more or 
less wonying feat the let- 
terwas signed hya human 
rather than bong entire- 
ly computer-generated? 

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My day-long ordeal as a 75-year 



By jack O’Sullivan 

^ I THOUGHT the morning after 
the Christmas office party, that 
I knew what it was like to be 75. 
But that was before I was given 
an old age makeover; designed 
by gerontologists. 

In a few moments, using 
cheap and easily available ma- 
terials, they took me, a 37-year- 
old man, and transformed me 
into a vulnerable, isolated old 
person, fumbling at the sim- 
plest of tasks. 

For any man, hoping not to 
turn into his father, it was a de- 
pressing experience. It left me 
feeling that there is no escape 
from that fate. But it was also 
illuminating. I understood a 
little better what life is like for 
my dad. Til be less critical In 
future. 

We started with the eyes. 
Anne Pam from Age Concern, 
which supplies the ageing kits, 
fitted me with goggles, which 
gave me tunnel vision. It is, she 
said, a common handicap, 
springing from high blood pres- 
sure or a stroke. 

To this she added a weight- 
ed strap around my right wrist 
simulating loss of muscle 
strength and another around 
. ) my left ankle as though, after 
’ a stroke, that side had become 
slightly leaden. 

A double pair of surgical 
gloves helped me to appreciate 
a diminished sense of touch 
that comes with age as well as 
making my joints stiffen as the 
gloves warmed up. 

And the final element was 
ear plugs. “From 25," explained 
Ms Pam “there is a slight loss 
of pitch and tone, but it is so 
gradual that you don't notice it" 

I certainly noticed the ear 
plugs. It was not just that con- 
versation around me was muf- 
fled I felt cut off from Ms Parr 
and our photographer as I 
caught snippets of the conver- 
_ sation about as well as if I was 
lying head down in the bath. 
And, as I withdrew, lost in con- 
centrating on what was going 
on, they seemed to ignore me, 
like some old person, passive, 
in the corner 

We ventured out The plan 
was to test myself on Oxford 
Street and buy a dressing 
gown, my Christinas present 
for my dad, who is 78. 1 thought 
if I could step into his skin for 
a few hours, perhaps I might 
\ also choose his attire as welL 
— ^ It was frightening to step out 
like the first time you let go 


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of the side at a swimming pooL 

The light seemed so bright 
a complaint that many older 
people have, explained Ms Pam 
which is why so man y wear 
shaded glasses. And I couldn't 
tell immediately where either 
she or the photographer was, 
lost in the melee around me. 
The combination of poor vision 
and muffled bearing made the 
world seem unsafe. Ed gin g on 
to a zebra crossing was an act 
of faith. I began to understand 
why older people stay in 
their homes, take refuge in 
familiarity and how brave those 
are who boldly carry on with the 
busy life I take for granted 

I also gained a glimpse be- 
hind those grim old feces you 
sometimes see walking pur- 
posefully, head down, along the 
street, oblivious to all around 
them. I had always assumed 
that illness, grief or simply fear 
of death had etched such a hu- 
mourless expression on some 
feces. 

But there is another factor - 
determination. When you can- 
not hear or see properly and 
your limbs don't seem to co- 
ordinate quite as they should 
you become single-minded I 
found myself staring at the 
pavement, making sure that I 
didn't trip. There was no time 
to window-shop, admire the 
crispness of the day, look at the 
Christmas lights or flirt with a 
beautiful woman. 

I know London's Hibe sta- 
tions well and travel on them 
daily. Yet that grim determina- 
tion also seemed necessary to 
counter a sense of disorienta- 
tion, as I searched for tiie right 
escalator, as I was jostled by 
rushing younger people. Even 
finding the right money for the 
fere was a problem, as my 
gloved hands couldn't distin 
guish the coins in my pocket 
Had I just dropped a tenner on 
the ground? I wondered peer- 
ing around my feet like Mr 
Magoo. 

Oxford Street was a blur 
and staring into shop windows 
was too much trouble. The de- 



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ARCHAEOLOGISTS HAVE dis- 
covered the world's oldest 
known purpose-built church - 
and are predicting even older 
.ones will be found in the future. 
9 The discovery, in the Jor- 
danian Red Sea port of Aqaba, 
pushes back Christian archi- 
tectural history by several 
decades. Bufit between 293 and 
303, the building pre-dates the 
Church of the Holy Sepulchre 
in Jerusalem and the Church of 
the Nativity in Bethlehem, both 
built in the late 320s. 

The Aqaba church is the 
first purpose-built Christian 
place of worship discovered 
from the period before Chris- 
tianity found favour with the 
Roman imperial government 
Indeed, it pre-dates the great- 
est of all the Roman anti- 
Christian persecutions, which 
was carried out in the reign of 
Diocletian in 303-313. 

Constructed in the form of a 
large east-west oriented basil- 
ica, with apse and aisles, the 
folding also had a narthex 
chancel screen as well as 
an adjoining cemetery. Exca- 
vations have unearthed walls up 
to 4.5 metres high and a col- 


By David Keys 
Archaeology Correspondent 


lection box with coins. “The dis- 
covery is very significant for the 
history of Christian architec- 
ture and of Christianity itself," 
said the director of the exca- 
vation, Professor Thomas Park- 
er, of North Carolina State 
University. 

Historical texts indicate that 
there were many more such 
churches built, according to 
Professor Parker “It is quite 
possible, even likely that other 
late third-century churches 
may soon be discovered." 

Likely locations include An- 
tioch. Ephesus and Nicomedia 
tall now in Turkey), Si don and 
Tyre (Lebanon), and Alexandria 
and Carthage (North Africa). 

Aqaba church appears to 
have been abandoned during 
foe great persecution of 303-313, 
then refurbished sometime be- 
tween 313 and 330. It was de- 
stroyed by an earthquake in 363. 

During its first phase, the 
church would have held about 
60 worshippers. After the Great 
Persecution, phase two would 
have allowed it to hold up to 100. 


pertinent stores where I hoped 
to buy the dressing gown 
seemed vast and mysterious as 
I searched for some indication 
of where the men’s clothing de- 
partment was (I now know why 
my dad just sends cheques at 
Christmas). 

Fortunately, Ms Parr was 
there to guide me through the 
hubbub, as I grew increasing- 
ly into one of those apparently 
passive, dependent elderly 
people who seem to have hand- 
ed over their lives to a more 
youthful companion. 

As it happened, we had wast- 
ed our time. I could not tell, by 
touch, the difference between 
a silk dressing gown and a 
cheap cotton one. 

“Can we stop for coffee," I 
asked, echoing my father’s 
words whenever he goes shop- 
ping. The relief of sitting down 
and becoming orientated was 
wonderful. Yet as I ate my 
pastiy I had no idea whether 1 
was spilling crumbs down my 
front and humiliating myself 
further. 

Ms Parr, who uses the 
“Through Other Eyes" kit on 
company executives to give 
them insight into their cus- 
tomers. reassured me that it 
isn't quite this bad to be infirm. 
It happens slowly, she said. 
You adapt gradually. 

But as I took a breather on 
my way home and chatted to 
Alan Burley; 73, on a day trip to 
Oxford Street from Hull, I could 
only admire his courage and de- 
termination. “You're a hero." 1 
told him. 



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‘Peas for votes’ storm as St Petersburg goes to polls 


THIS IS a very bad time to be a 
liberal democrat in Russia. 

Take several incidents over 
the past few days alone: a 
school in the Urals has unveiled 
a bust of Stalin: Communists 
have been clamouring for the 
return of the monument to 
ffelix Dzerzhinsky, the ruth- 
less founder of the KGB, out- 
side the Lubyanka in downtown 
Moscow, the mayor of Moscow, 


BY PHIL REEVES 
in Moscow 


Yuri Luhkov, a leading presi- 
dential candidate, held a week- 
end congress of his new 
political parly (Fatherland) and 
announced the era of radical lib- 
eral reforms was dead. “The ex- 
periment is oven" he declared 
The liberal democrats them- 
selves - a mixed bag ran g i n g 


from opportunist free-marke- 
teers to genuine liberals - are 
in shock caused by the murder 
a month ago of one of their lead- 
ing lights in parliament, Galina 
Starovoitova, adviser to Boris 
Ybitsin in the perestroika era. 
Their influence has shrivelled. 
And anti-Semites have been 
spouting freely in parliament 
And yet there is one small 
corner of hope, in what used to 


be the tsars’ city of St Peters- 


round of municipal elections in 
the city- which is, by tradition, 
a seedbed for Russia’s liberal 

intelligpntsifl 

Democrats woe hoping to 
consolidate gains after 
the assassination of Ms Staro- 
voitova. Outrage at her murder 
was one reason tor an unpre- 
cedented^ h^ turn-out of 40 


per cent in the election's first 
round on 6 December when the 
anti-c ommunis t liberals - nota- 
bty the Yabloko Party - did 
weiL Underlying this was im- 
patience with runaway corrup- 
tion and crime in St Petersburg, 
which has seen repeated as- 
sassinations and the evolution 
of mafia-style criminal ganga 
who control a large section of 


But, while the election re- 
sults, expected early today, 
may give democrats a rare 
cause for celebration, the cam- 
paign itself has not The elec- 
tions have been marred by 
some of the dirtiest tactics wit- 
nessed in Russian politics. 
There were allegations that 
pensioners were given tins of 
peas for votes; phantom can- 
didates with the same names as 


on ballot papers. Smears and 
counter-smears abounded. 

Whatever the outcome, the 
so-called democratic camp has 


in national parliamentary elec- 
tions next year and- crucially 
n m»d?hl p for 

the presidency in 2000. 

After the Starovoitova mur- 
der most of them leading lights 




Expats 
fight for 
justice 
in Italy 

EXPATRIATE LECTURERS in BY FRANCES KENNEDY 
Italy say universities are con- in Rome 
tinuing to flout European Union 

employment law on pay and the personnel office within 48 
rights, despite court rulings hours and sign new contracts, 
and an official reprimand from which drastically curtailed their 
Brussels. They say rather than salaries and rights. Failure to 
grant them parity with Ital- do so would mean their em- 
ians. universities from Trento plqyment was terminated," said 
to Catania are trying to force David Petrie, a tenacious Scot, 
them to take pay cuts and sign the founder and president of the 
away their acquired rights. Association for the Defence of 
The}’ are being told that if they Fbreign Lecturers, 
refuse there will be job losses From his home in Verona, 

and restructuring. Mr Petrie directs an incessant 

Fbreign language lecturers flow of faxes, letters, press re- 
have been battling for more leases and legal challenges, 
than a decade for recognition Over the years his pursuit of 
that they are not just colourful justice has become an obses- 
figures there to lend a hand to sion. Several times he has 
the real teachers and a touch taken to court his own univer- 
of authenticity to language sity in Vterona - and won - but 
courses. In most Italian uni- is still waiting to see his legal 
versifies they carry out 90 per victory translated into reality, 
cent of the teaching, plus writ- He is not alone. About 1,000 
big, supervising and marking of the estimated 1.500 foreign 
exams. But many of them net language lecturers in Italy are 
as little as one million lire involved in legal proceedings. 
(£357) a month, as opposed to “The ridiculous thing is that 
the three million lire of a native even Italian judges have upheld 
Italian. our claims but the university 

“One of the most recent boards and rectors simply 
breaches was at the Universita refuse to comply. The ministry 
Frederico n in Naples where 19 says the universities are au- 
lecturers received a registered tonomous but I bet no univer- 
letter telling them to report to sity back in Britain would ever 



David Petrie, a Scot working in Verona, who is challenging the Italian government over the rights of fbreign lecturers Nick Cornish 


daim they were above the law" 
added Mr Petrie. 

The trials and tribulations of 
the lettore strameri go back 
some years. Foreigners were 
traditionally employed on an- 
nual renewable contracts until 
their case became a test of EU 
credibility, regarding the equal 
treatment of European nation- 
als within each state. 

The foreign lecturers won 
two landmark rulings. Ihe first, 
at the European Court of Jus- 
tice in 1995, established that, be- 
cause Italian lecturers had 
open-ended contracts, non- 
nationals should have the 


same: “After the 1995 ruling, the 
authorities simply shifted the 
goalposts. They offered us new 
open-ended contracts but for a 
different job. We are no longer 
lecturerabutcollnborcrtDrihrF- 
guistici, linguistic collabora- 
tors, on worse wages and 
conditions than before,” Mr 
Petrie said In 1996 14 lecturers 
in Salerno were fired for re- 
fusing to sign new contracts. 

The second sentence de- 
clared that the lecturers had 
been discriminated against and 
were entitled to back pay in- 
cluding arrears of pension and 
social security contributions. 


A year ago, the European 
Commission decided to bring a 
case against Italy before the 
European Court of Justice re- 
garding (he acquired rights of 
the Lecturers. In September, 
the Commissioner for Em- 
ployment and Social Affairs, 
Padraig Flynn, warned Italy 
that if “swift and comprehen- 
sive action” was not taken to 
bring fbreign lecturers’ con- 
tracts into line with European 
law “the Commission would 
not hesitate to proceed with 
legal action”. 

“To placate Brussels, the 
Ministry for Universities pre- 


sented a letter sent to all rec- 
tors urging than to feH into line. 
Vfet in a separate note to state 
lawyers last month, it said the 
European Commission was 
wen disposed towards ‘defini- 
tive^ dosing the case’ or in lay- 
man’s terms, dropping it," said 
Mr Petrie. 

However it appears that the 
Co mmis si on has wn intention Of 
letting things slip and at a 2 De- 
cember meeting it agreed to 
continue legal procee ding; . 

While Mr Petrie and his 400- 
odd followers hope a European 
solution will guarantee their 
status and conditions, other 


foreign lecturers are battling 
through the Italian union 
system. 

“It’s realty getting out of 
band,” said John Gilbert, a New 
Yorker teaching in Florence 
and a member of CGIL, Italy’s 
largest trade union. “Universi- 
ty after university is resorting 
to bully tactics. They put lec- 
turers inapodtuxi where if (hqy 
want their legality won rights to 
be respected they have to ac- 
cept that another colleague 
may lose his job through *re 
structuring’. ’Hie overall losers 
are not only we lecturers but 
also our students,” he said. 


Kosovo 
fighters 
at mass 
funeral 

by Paul Wood ~r 7 

the troubled Sertrian - 
province of Kosovo saw more vi- 
olence yesterday even as thou- 
sands of mourners turned but 
for the funeral of 36 ethnic Al- 
banians killed in a border dash 
with the security forces. 

The burials came at the end 
of a week of violence, which has i.j 
claimed the lives of at least 46 
people. In the Latest dash yes- 
terday, Serbian sources said 
that two ethnic Albanians were 
wounded and four arrested 
after firing on a police patrol 
from a passing can 

About one thousand fighters 
of the Kosovo liberation Army 
CKLA) were among the sever- 
al thousand ethnic Albanian 
mourners who went to the tiny 
village of Poljance for the fu- 
neral The authorities said the 
men shot were KLA members 
trying to smuggle weapons into 
the province. Soon after that in- 
cident, six young Serbs were 
shot dead in a bar in the west- 
ern dty of Pec, and the Serbian £T; 
deputy mayor of Kosovo Folje 
was killed. 

Serbs in Kosovo yesterday de- 
manded the return of the secu- 
rity forces withdrawn under the 
threat of Nato air strikes in Oc- 
tober; to protect them. They 
ended three days of protest in 
the capital, Pristina, after an an- 
nouncement that the Serisan In- 
terior Minister would ■risit later 
today to hear their demands. 

Western diplomats largely 
blame the rebel KLA, not the v 
Serbs, for theincreased tension v 
in Kosova One official saidit was 
dear the KLA had been moving 
steadOy to take advantage of the 
Serbian witfadrawalmade under 
threat of Nato air strikes. 


Matador legend dies, aged 66 


SPAIN WAS in mourning yes- 
terday for Antonio Ordonez, 
one of the last great matadors 
of bullfighting's golden age of 
the 1950s and 1960s, a friend of 
Orson Welles and an inspiration 
for Ernest Hemingway. 

Spanish newspapers gave 
front-page coverage to Ordon- 
ez’s death on Saturday: one, La 
Robot, relegated Clinton's im- 
peachment to the foot of the 
page in favour of a sepia photo 


By Elizabeth Nash 
in Madrid 

of their hero in his suit of lights. 

Government ministers, the 
Peruvian writer Mario Vargas 
Llosa and Spain’s grandest 
grandee, the Duchess of Alba, 
were among hundreds who 
paid their respects at Seville 
town hall, where his body was 
laid in state yesterday. The 
Duchess’s daughter married 


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Ordonez's grandson, the mata- 
dor Francisco Rivera Ordonez, 
in October in a ceremony 
broadcast live on state televi- 
sion and billed as the social 
event of the yean 
Despite countless gorings 
and 27 serious injuries in near- 
ly 30 years, ft was cancer that 
killed Ordonez at the age of 66. 
Bom in Ronda in 1932, he was 
the scat of a bullfighter, Nino de 
la Palma, who was the hero of 


Sofia 

mafia 

boss 

killed 


ONE OF the reputed leaders of 
the Bulgarian mafia was 
gunned down early yesterdayat 
a villa near the capital Sofia, 
police repealed. 

Ivo Karamansiri, 39, had 
joined a party when a quarrel 
among guests ended in a 
shootout, police said. Mr Kara- 
rrmrugki ant! his bodyguard rfipri 

at the scene. Two other guests 
were wounded. Police later 
arrested a 33-year-old man. 

Mr Karaman&bi, a former na- 
tional rowing champion, ran a 
prosperous insurance compa- 
ny. In 1986 he was sentenced to 
two years in jail for fraud. He 
was believed to be a key figure 
in Bulgaria’s underworld. 

Despite his reputation, Mr 
Karamanski maintained good 
connections with police and 
judiciary officials. He once cel- 
ebrated release from detention 
by having a cup of cofee in pub- 
lic with the state prosecutor 

He was among the founders 
of criminal groups set up and 
controlled by former athletes. In 
the nfap years since Bulgaria 

threw off Communist rale, 
many former sports stars have 
gone from being legitimate 
bodyguards to operating shacty 
“security 7 ' services. C AP) 


Hemingway's novel The Sun 
Also Rises. When Ordonez jnr 
met (he writer; he asked: “Am 
I as good as my father?” Hem- 
ingway replied: “you’re better” 
Ronda declared three days 
of official mourning, and black- 
draped flags flew at half-mast 
Ordonez is to be cremated to- 
day and his ashes scattered on 
the sand of Ronda bullring, the 
cradle of Spanish bullfighting. 

Obituary Review, page 6 



Ordonez: Countless gorings 
and 27 serious injuries 


In Brief 


*Bin Laden aide 9 sent to the US 

A SUSPECTED senior aide of Osama bin Laden, the Saudi 
millionaire accused of organising the bombings at US 
embassies in East Africa this summer, was turned over 
to American officials at Munich airport last night for 
extradition to the US. A spokesman for the Bavarian 
Justice Ministry said Mamdouh Mahmud Salim was 
taken from Stadelheim prison in Munich to the airport 
and handed over to the Americans. 

Israel freezes West Bank transfer 

THE ISRAELI Prime Minis ter, Benjamin Netanyahu, won 
cabinet agreement yesterday for the suspension of peace 
moves with the Palestinians, setting the scene for a 
showdown in parliament There was one abstention to a 
proposal to freeze the hand-over of West Bank land 
outlined in the United States-brokered Wye River accord- 

Prince accuses 'captive* women 

TEN SERVANTS of a Saudi prince, Turki bin Abdel Aziz - 
a brother of King Fahd - threw a note from their Cairo 
hotel window, saying they were being held captive. 
Yesterday eight of the Filipino women were arrested 
after the prince accused them of theft. They said the 
prince’s allegation was provoked by their complaints. 

Tent fire kills 165 buffaloes 

A TOTAL of 165 buffaloes and four horses were killed 
when an electric short circuit set ablaze a grass tent 
built by nomads in Puqjab state, 185 miles north of Delhi 
The animals belonged to a man of the Gqjjar tribe, 
which lives mainly in forests. The animals were all 
charred to death. 


JOHN WALSH 

‘Madam,’ I repKed coldly, 
Aladdin is about as 
Christmassy as the Sphinx’ 


in tiif, Monday Review page 5 



Islamists poised to 
take over in Turkey 


TURKEY'S PRIME minister des- 
ignate, Bulent Ecevit, warned 
yesterday that his failure to 
form a government would prob- 
ably return the Islamist oppo- 
sition to power 
Mr Ecevit acknowledged on 
Saturday that he had been 
unable to put together a coali- 
tion since the foil of the con- 
servative-led government last 
month amid accusations of cor- 
ruption. He predicted that the 
collapse of his talks with bick- 
ering parliamentary rivals 


By Steve Bhxant 
in Ankara 

could bring back Islamists who 
were forced out of power 18 
months ago by the military. 

Mr Ecevit, whose talks ex- 
cluded parliament’s largest 
group, the Muslim-oriented 
Virtue Party, said: “An interim 
government, most probably in- 
volving Virtue, will be formed " 

Mr Ecevit, a secularist who 
regards Virtue’s loyalty to 
Turkey’s constitution as deeply 


suspect yesterday said he 
would hand back the mandate 
to form a government to Pres- 
ident Suleyman Demirel today. 

Mr Demirel must now ap- 
point someone else to form 
Turkey's sixth government 
since 1995. Any administration 
would probably only govern 
until April when earty elections 
are scheduled 

Virtue is the successor to the 
Welfare Party outlawed in Jan-f 
uary for attempting to subvert 
the constitution. (Reuters) 


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FOREIGN NEWS/15 



Ding dong! Time for 
Christmas baksheesh 


Thai performers staging a ‘Light of Asia’ show during the closing ceremony of the international Asian Games in Bangkok yesterday AP 


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Show trial begins of 
China’s top dissident 


THE LEADING Chinese dissi- 
dent still active on the mainland 
was scheduled for trial this 
morning in the heavily guard- 
ed Peking Number 1 Interme- 
diate People's Court one day 
^TCfter a labour activist who had 
served three years in a labour 
camp was unexpectedly par- 
oled and exiled. 

Human rights activists 
branded the timing of Liu Ni- 
an chubs release as an attempt 
by Peking to deflect interna- 
tional criticism from its biggest 
crackdown in three years. 

As 50-year-oki Mr Iiu and his 
family were bundled on to a 
Northwest Airlines flight to the 
United States yesterday morn- 
•'Aa, the latest victim of the 


BY TERESA POOLE 
in Peking 

suppression. Xu Wenli, was 
preparing for today’s court ap- 
pearance. Notice of the trial was 
given to Mr Xu's family only on 
Friday, leaving no time for the 
court-appointed lawyer to or- 
ganise his defence. 

This year. 55-year-old Mr Xu 
has become the eider mentor 
and focus for a disparate group 
of activists across China, many 
of whom have been involved in 
trying to register an indepen- 
dent China Democracy Party. 
Like two other activists whose 
brief trials were held last week, 
Mr Xu wili plead not guilty to 
charges of inciting subversion. 


but is bound to be convicted. 
The maximum penalty for the 
offence is life imprisonment, al- 
though no sentences have yet 
been announced. 

In the late Seventies, Mr Xu 
was a Democracy Wall activist 
and has already spent 12 years 
in prison, mostly in solitary 
confinement 

As he became more outspo- 
ken over the course of this 
year, Mr Xu was taken in for 
questioning many times but 
until his arrest on 30 November 
had been released within hours 
or days. 

In particular, Ibpy Blair was 
embarrassed during his Octo- 
ber visit to the mainland when 
Mr Xu was detained briefly for 


questioning, and British aides 
hurriedly raised the matter 
with their Chinese hosts. 

The current crackdown on 
dissidents has left European 
Union governments on the de- 
fensive about their optimistic 
Haims earlier thi« year that 
“constructive engagement" 
with China was helping to se- 
cure significant improvements 
in human rights. 

The EU this spring contro- 
versially abandoned its annual 
attempt to censure China at the 
United Nations Human Rights 
Commission in Geneva. 

The parole on medical 
grounds and exfle of Mr Liu fol- 
lows similar treatment since 
late 1997 for two other high- 


profile dissidents, Wang Dan 
and Wei Jingsheng. China now 
seems willing to release lead- 
ing dissidents only if they im- 
mediately go into exile. 

Mr Liu was arrested in 1995, 
when Peking clamped down 
on labour activists. The follow- 
ing yean Ids wife learnt he had 
been sentenced without trial to 
three years' “re-education 
through labour" in north-east 
China. That was subsequently 
extended by a year As Mr Liu's 
health deteriorated, his wife, 
Chu Hail an, campaigned to 
bring his case to the attention 
of the outside world. 

Mr Xu’s wife. He Xintong, 
has been similarly fearless, 
also putting herself at risk. 


ON MY FRONT door in Niza- 
muddin, I have just hung up 
a huge red and green wreath, 
made from dried chilli pep- 
pers, to spice up my holiday 
mood and to discourage a 
marauding monkey who has 
been mooching around our 
neighbourhood. 

He won't nibble on these 
Christmas goodies more than 
once, that’s for sure. 

Christmas Day is a national 
holiday in India when all 
offices shut, and Christmas 
Eve is one of the biggest 
nights for middle-class Fami- 
lies to dine out topped only by 
New ^fear's Eve. 

Many Indians look forward 
to a Christmas bonus and 
Christmas break. 

While politically correct 
friends send me their family 
photos stamped, inoffensive- 
ly, “Season's Greetings" and 
the New Agers command me 
bye-mail to “Make it a peace- 
ful Winter Solstice, man", I am 
mired in Christmas chaos 
here in the Indian capital. 

Cultural fusion often 
sparks confusion, and this 
year we have the Islamic holy 
month of Ramadan coinciding 
with Chanukah, Christmas 
and the birthday of the 10th 
Sikh Guru, Gobind Singh. 

Tb complicate matters even 
further, more than ID, 000 
bridegrooms, mounted on 
white steeds and each pre- 
ceded by a brass band and a 
gaggle of relatives, hit the 
streets last week when the 
astrological alignment of the 
stars was declared especially 
auspicious for weddings. 

But not to worry Celebrat- 
ing is what the denizens of 
Delhi do best 

The colder it is outside, 
the hotter the entertainment 
gets, and the mercury here 
has dropped to a chilly 6C. 

Fbstive fairy lights sparkle 
in the hedges, whisky drinkers 
warm their hands around 
charcoal braziers and loud- 
speakers crackle at maximum 
volume. 

Shahnaz, the melancholy 
eunuch, is sporting imported 
fluorescent green eyeshadow 
to make a bigger impact at the 
wedding parties he stalks. 

Because of so much winter 
fog, the hijra entertainer is 
now too hoarse to sing out 


City Life 

DELHI 

blessings for cash. “What to 
do?" he shrugs. “My dancing 
is still there. And I thank 
Allah for this Ramadan fast. 
The nights come much quick- 
er than in summer" 

With two other hijras, who 
resemble pantomime dames 
on the skids, Shahnaz huddles 
in an open rickshaw and 
heads towards a wedding re- 
ception down the road. 

Tbe doth sides of the 
shamiana, done up like an 
ersatz Taj Mahal, seem to 




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l' Ji 


A Christmas tree spreads 
the word in Delhi 

pulse to the beat of tbe band. 

There is no chance here to 
experience a truly Silent 
Night, with more thanlO mil- 
lion, mostly Hindu citizens 
making merry in the murky 
dark. Delhi certainly is no 
place to escape the world- 
wide Christmas commercial- 
ism. Holly and ivy may be 
scarce but the background 
music playing in the bazaars 
is usually disco Christmas 
carols. My doorbell chimes 
constantly with the arrival of 
sweepers, postmen and tele- 
phone linemen who demand 
“Christmas baksheesh" from 
the foreign memsahib. 

Vendors arrive to hawk 
embroidered tabledoths. 
shawls or brass curios. 

Vhst hampers of out-of-sea- 
son fruit are brought up. with 
wishes for my continued pros- 


perity. Lights and tinsel glit- 
ter at the markets, punctuat- 
ed by paper star lanterns 
fashioned with a pop-up na- 
tivity' scene. 

These Christmas senti- 
ments pre-date any nostalgia 
for the plum cakes and 
plummy voices of the British 
Raj. and so many acquired 
customs make a curious mix. 

Local Christians believe 
the Apostle Thomas rowed 
ashore in Madras. When the 
Jesuit missionary St Francis 
Xavier arrived in the 16th 
century, there already was a 
long-established church in 
India. Today, most of the In- 
dian elite know every carol by 
heart after childhoods spent 
in English- language boarding 
schools run by Christian cler- 
gy. Satellite television wiiips up 
the frenzy even further. 

Such enthusiasm may 
seem odd, given that only 
about 2 per cent of Indians are 
Christians, but tbe birthday of 
Jesus is just one more reason 
for a party alongside these 25 
milli on believers. 

The Sivananda Yoga 
Vedanta Nataraja Centre, for 
instance, holds an annual 
Bible reading Chris tmas feast 
and gift exchange for all its 
members and keeps room on 
tbe eclectic altar of idols for 
Christian icons. 

The centre believes in plu- 
ralism - the more gods the 
merrier Emanuel Baksee, a 
Christian convert sets up a 
tiny manger scene every year 
and never leaves out three odd 
figures. Mingled with the wise 
men and shepherds are a 
plastic Santa, a small rubber 
Mahatma Gandhi with silver 
glitter on his loincloth, and a 
miniature I ndir a Gandhi, like 
Cruella De Vil in a sari. 

Sometimes, the unfamiliar 
symbolism goes awry. I spied 
an extravagant wreath of 
bogus pine boughs that fea- 
tured an especially grisly cru- 
cifix - all done up with a red 
satin bow that exactly 
matched the colour of the 
blood droplets. 

But whether it’s a "Merry 
•Christmas" or even a "Happy 
Krishna", I know every minor 
acquaintance in Delhi will 
phone me on Christmas Day 
to wish me welL 

Jan McGirk 


United States yesterday morn- Mr Xu will plead not guilty to ber visit to the mainland when lows similar treatment since has been similarly fearless, fog, the hqra entertainer is son fruit are brought up. with to wish me welL 

the latest victim of the charges of inciting subversion, Mr Xu was detained briefly for late 1997 for two other high- also putting herself at risk. now too hoarse to sing out wishes for my continued pros- Jan McGirk 


Barbados prepares to ditch the Queen and elect a president 

BARBADOS IS preparing to By JAMES Roberts The report proposed that the Sir Henry’s report, which choice tourist destination, islanders. Barbados was ca- duties with impartiality and court of last appeal. He said ti 

ditch the Queen as head of president, who should be at has been submitted to Pariia- Even though the tourist in- pable of property managing all decorum and reflected the peo- court could be replaced by 


BARBADOS IS preparing to 
ditch the Queen as head of 
state and become a republic. 

The Caribbean i sland , home 
to 3150,000 people in a territory 
-^-■j^uring 20 miles by 14 miles, 
woind follow the neighbouring 
former British colonies of 
Guyana. Trinidad and Tobago 
and Dominica if it accepted the 
recommendations of a new 
constitutional report. Sir Henry 


Fbrde, the former foreign min- 
ister, was appointed by the 
Barbadian government to head 
a constitutional commission. 

He has delivered a 136-page 
report, which argues that Bar- 
bados should remain in the 
Commonwealth, but elect its 
own non-executive president to 
serve for a seven-year term. 


The report proposed that the 
president, who should be at 
least 40 years old and a Bar- 
badian, be chosen by an elec- 
toral college made up of the 
speaker of the House of As- 
sembly, 14 MFs and 10 sena- 
tors. Sir Henry said his 
recommendations reflected “a 
sense of maturity on the part 
of Barbados that it can function 
at the highest level”. 


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Sir Henry’s report, which 
has been submitted to Parlia- 
ment, follows two years of con- 
sultation, which took evidence 
from Barbadians in Britain 
and North America as well as 
on the island itself. 

Barbados eqjoys a degree of 
economic and political stabili- 
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Rebels 

overrun 

diamond 

capital 


BY AUJEU IBRAHIM KAMARA 

in Freetown, Sierra Leone 

REBELS OVERRAN the dia- 
mond capital of Koidu in the 
east of Sierra Leone on Satur- 
day when West African and 
allied forces withdrew after 
fierce fighting, survivors and 
aid workers said on Sunday. 

In Freetown, the West 
African Ecomog troops told 
people to leave the Lumley 
beach resort on Sunday as 
artillery fire could be heard in 
the distance, witnesses said. 

The rebels launched their at- 
tack on Koidu on Wednesday, 
but were initially beaten back 
by the Nigerian-led Ecomog 
troops supported by Kamajor 
traditional hunters. ! 

“The battle continued until 
early yesterday when the Eco- 
mog troops and Kamajors 
pulled back to the outskirts of 
tbe town.” Alpha JaDoh, 45. a di- 
amond miner; told reporters in 
Freetown. He was shot in the 
leg in the fi ghting and was 
taken to the capital with other 

wounded by military helicopter. 

Ecomog officers said they 
withdrew to limit civilian casu- 
alties. “We are giving the civil- 
ians a few days to leave the town, 
then we will strike and crush tbe 
rebels,” an officer stud. 

Survivors in Freetown told of 
bodies lying in the streets. Aid 
workers said thousands of civil- 
ians had fled Koidu. (Reuters) 


choice tourist destination. 
Even though the tourist in- 
dustry has become the main- 
stay of the economy and the 
island’s biggest foreign cur- 
rency earner, Barbados has 
not developed a dependency 
culture and Sir Henry paid 
tribute to the self-reliance of the 


islanders. Barbados was ca- 
pable of property managing all 
aspects of its national affairs, 
he insisted. 

“Wte have had the experi- 
ence of a succession of native 
governors, all but one of whom 
have been local Barbadians, 
and they have discharged their 


duties with impartiality and 
decorum and reflected the peo- 
ple's highest values and aspi- 
rations," he said last week. 

Sir Henry revealed that 
most of the Barbadians inter- 
viewed felt strongly that the is- 
land should do away with the 
British Privy Council as the 


court of last appeal He said the 
court could be replaced by a 
Caribbean court of appeals or 
a Barbadian court if that could 
not be set up within “a rea- 
sonable time". 

Barbados gained indepen- 
dence in 1966 after 350 years as 
a British colony. 


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BUSINESS 


Briefing 


Fleming denies Commerzbank bid 

Robert Fleming, one of the UK's last remaining 
independent investment banks, yesterday moved to 
squash rumours that it had rejected a £3 bn offer from 
Commerzbank because of opposition to a takeover from 
its fo unding famil y 

Weekend reports suggested that Commerzbank 
tabled a £22-a-share bid for Robert Fl emin g Group, 
nearly three times its current market value, in 
September. However, the reports said the bid was 
blocked by the Fleming family, which holds a 30 per 
cent stake. 

The bank has also been linked in recent weeks with 
ABN Amro, JP Morgan and Paribas. A spokesman for 
Robert Fleming said: “We have had no contact at all with 
Commerzbank. There has been no bid and no talks. We 
are not up for sale." 

Champagne sales set to fizz 

CONSUMPTION OF 
champagne is set to rise by 
a fifth next year as revellers 
celebrate the end of the 
maienninm. According to 
Datamo niton the market 
research group, demand for 
champagne is set to jump 
by 22 per cent In the UK. 
Germany France and the 
US in 1999, with sales of 
sparkling wine also rising 
sharply 

The report raises the prospect of a champagne 
shortage, with demand possibly exceeding the 
320 million bottles which are available around the 
world. By comparison, however, growth in the 
demand for beer and next year wine is expected to be 
relatively modest 

Brand development link-up 

THE IDENTICA PARTNERSHIP, the brand development 
group, is to merge with Tango Design, part ofBartle Bogle 
Hegarty, the advertising group, in order to concentrate on 
projecting companies’ brands inside shops. The place 
where consumers buy products - the so-called point of 
engagement - has traditionally been neglected by 
advertisers. In the US, however, advertisers spend over 
$13bn every year promoting brands at the point of 
engagement 

Identica, founded in 1995 by Michael Peters, has £7m 
turnover and a client base that includes Seagram, - 
Unilever, One2,One and Gillette. 


Australian group wins NPI 
auction with £2.7bn deal 


AMP, the Australian insurance 
group, has clinched victory in 
the battle to buy NPI, the 
mutual life insurer; in a deal 
which values the society at 
£L7bn and opens the way for 
policyholders to receive cash 
windfalls of up to £800 each. 

AMP yesterday confirmed it 
had beaten off stiff competition 
from other life insurers to win 
the auction for NPI, which was 
forced by financial weakness to 
put itself up for sale at the 
beginning of October. 

Under the offer, NPTs 600,000 
policyholders will receive a cadi 
payout of at least £300 each. 
Among them, over 440,000 who 


By Andrew verity 

hold with-profits policies win 
receive a further cash payout 
averaging £477. Policyholders 
will receive terther unspeci- 
fied sums in high er bonuses 
over the coming years. 

The offer win be subject to a 
pofl of qualifying members to be 
held next spring. NPI said it was 
unlikely thM windfalls would be 
sent out before late summer 

The Australian group beat off 
CGU and Britannic, two UK 

insurers, in the final stage of the 
racefor the insurer after about 
15 rival companies expressed 
an ini tial interest 


If the deal is approved, NPI 
win cease to exist as a mutual 
life office and become a sub- 
sidiary of Peari, the mass mar- 
ket UK life insurer owned by 
A M P I y 11 "* , the chief 

executive cfNPL w31 retain his 


on the British board of AMR 
George Trumbull, chief ex- 
ecutive of AMR said the deal 
would result in some redun- 
dancies because of overlaps 
wjfoHexJerstxi, the investment 
manager which AMP bought 
earlier this yean However; he 
said these would amount to less 
than 10 per cent of NPTs 2£00 

staff “in the short term”. 


He added AMP was unlikely 
to make aiy further UK aeqin- 
sxtians in the shortterm. “Wfeare 
a big python that has just swat 
kwedabuBandweneed to stop 
and digest it" 

AMP win in effect pay just 
£5i0m in new money for NPL 
The rest of the £2.7bn figure 
consists of £L4bn in assets 
from NPTs estate - a sum 
already owned by NPTs poB- 


courtship of NPI fay the Aus- 
tralian insurer; which first 
approached the group in early 
1997 after losing to Prudential 
in a similar battle for Scottish 
Amicable. Alastair Lyons ini- 
tially resisted AMP’s advances 
ami conv erti n g to 

become a pic would make 
poticybokJers “a means to an 
end, notan end in themsrives”. 

However; the insurer was 


dropped out in the last three 
weeks after learning of the 
scale of fonds required to boost 
NPFs financial strength. 

The deal is much less 

expensive for AMP t h a n it 
would have been for a foreign 
office such as Swiss Life, 
because AMP already owns a 
UK fife insurer. AMP can use 

the assets of Pearl’s life fund to 

jH«ign the £800m needed to 


qyholders - and a facility of forced by a combination of return NPI to financial health. 
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st re ngth ftf TVPTaKfe ft ipd, lent stock markets to start a surance consultant, said the 
of the weakest in Che life competi ti ve auction in October windfalls were small comfort to 
insurance sector Swiss Life, one of four policyholders, given the low 

%sterday's announcement insurers to maW it through to bonuses paid on NPI policies in 
marks the end of a two-year the doe diligence stage, recent years. 


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lent stock markets to start a 
competitive auction in October 
Swiss Life, one of four 
insuras to make it through to 
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The $9m purchase of two vaccines against nicotine and cocaine could give Cantab access to potentially huge markets Joe O’Shaughnessy 

Cantab set to buy anti-smoking drug 


CANTAB PHARMACEUTICALS, 
the drug development com- 
pany will today offer hope to 
millions of smokers and drug 
addicts with the $9m (S5J5m) 
purchase of two vaccines 
against nicotine and cocaine. 

Cantab is set to reveal that 
it is buying the two drugs, cur- 
rentfy in ettnk^trialsin the US, 
from the American biotech- 
nology firm ImmunoLogic. 


By Francesco Guerrera 

The acquisition will be 
funded through the issue of 
around two million Cantab 
shares at a slight premium to 
Friday’s dosing share price of 
202 .5p, leaving ImmunoLogic 
wilh nearly 6 per cent of the UK 
group. 

The deal will give Cantab, 
which has a number of other 


vaccines in its pipeline, access 
to two potentially huge mar- 
kets. Recent research shows 
that there are 50 million daily 
smokers in toe US alone, 17 
million of whom attempt to 
quit smoking each year. More 
than $350m is spent anmialty an 
prescription and over-the- 
counter dru^ by peoffie trying 
to give up nicotine in the US. 

The cocaine vaccine win tar- 


get the raflKons of heavy users 
of the drug. In the US, more 
than two million people use 
cocaine on a regular basis and 
900,000 of them seek treat m ent 
each yean 

The vaccines are designed 
to generate antibodies that 
neutalise the effects of the two 
substances. Experts believe 
they could have an edge over 
conventional treatments. 


which have a high relapse rate. 

Cantab has also agreed to 
pay ImmunoLogic a further 
film if the two vaccines suc- 
cessfully complete Phase n 
clinical trials - the intermedi- 
ate stage of drugs testing. In 
return, ImmunoLogic will 
transfer $6m in cash to Cantab 
to fund the development of the 
two compounds until the end of 
the year 2000. 


Deflation ‘to 
hit in 2002’ 


MEPC director left 
with payoff of f 6m 


BRITAIN FACES the prospect of 
negative inflation within four 
years- the first period of faffing 
prices in more than half a cen- 
tury - according to a leading 
economic think-tank. 

In a gloomy report the Cen- 
tre for Economics and Business 
Research (CEBR) praficts that 
inflation in the UK will fall to 
minus 0.2 per cent in the year 
2002 after slowing to 02 per cent 
in 2001. 

The fall in prices - also 
known as deflation - will be 
accompanied by a rise in 
unemployment of more than 
500,000 over the next three 
years, while interest rates will 
fell to as low as 2.4 per cent 

The CEBR has revised its 
forecasts following signs of 
weakening consumer confi- 
dence and figures showing that 
companies are sitting on an 
unexpectedly large amount of 
excess stock. 

Companies will cut prices to 
sefl off excess stock just as 
demand is weakening, while 
fa Ring ml and commodity prices 
will add to the downward pres- 
sure an inflation, the CEBR 
says. That is Ekety to result in 
lower pay rises. 

Douglas McWilliams, chief 
executive of the CEBR, said: 
“Inflation took off in the 1970s 


BY ANDREW VERITY 

on the back of inflationary wage 
increases and rising oQ and 
commodity prices. Now ail 
these factors are going into 
reverse, and as a result inflation 
is likely to disappeac 

“This wfli be a new world for 
most people working today, 
who have spent their entire 
working lives in an inflationary 
environment Vfe will no longer 
be able to think in tenns of an- 
nual rounds of wage and price 
increases.” 

The CEBR predicts a 
gradual fell in base rates from 
7,2 per cent this year to 5 2 per 
cent next year, 42 per cent in 
2000, 2A per cent in 2001 and 2.4 
per cent in 2002. It warns that 
the economy Is set to shrink 
slightly: real gross domestic 
protect growth mil fell from 2.4 
percentin 1998 to minus 0.1 per 
cent next year before returning 
to growth of 23 per cent by 2002. 

Technically the forecast of 
negative inflation applies only 
to 2002, but the CEBR predicts 
that the phenomenon of defla- 
tion may persist beyond then. 

The fell in prices would be 
the first since the 19408. The 
lowest rate of UK inflation in the 
past four decades was in 1959, 
when prices rose 0.6 per cent 


MEFC, the property giant, is ex- 
pected to come uniter intense 
scrutiny from its shareholders 
this week after revealing that 
a former director has received 
a payoff of almost £6m. 

David Gruber; the former 
chief executive of MEPC’s busi- 
nesses in the United States, was 
paid £52m as a bonus fra- suc- 
cessfully negotiating the sale erf 
the company’s US property 
portfolio, ha ackfitioo, he also re- 
ceived £769^00 in compensation 
for loss of office. Mr Grubeq 
who left foe compacy at the end 
of September; was on a two- 
year rolling contract 

The payoff, revealed in 
MEPC’s annual report which 
was posted on Friday evening, 
is likely to trigger some un- 
comfortable questions for Sir 
John Egan, the chairman, and 
chief executive James Tuckey, 
about the company's corpo- 
rate governance procedure. 

MEPC put its US portfolio up 
for sale in September 1997 after 
deciding to concentrate on its 
UK businesses in an attempt to 
reverse its flagging share price 
performance. 

It put Mr Gruber in charge 
of the process and offered him 
a bonus linked to the amount Ik 
raised from the sale, with spe- 
cial rewards if he could extract 


By Peter thal Larsen 



James Ttackey: Racing 
uncomfortable questions 

aprice above the book value of 
the pro per ti es. 

The portfolio was eventually 
sold earlier this year for $L3bn 
(£774m), some £50m more than 
book value. As a result of his 
success, Mr Gruber’s payoff 
rose sharply. 

A spokesman for MEPC 
stressed that the payout was a 
reward for success rather than 
failure: "This was a contractual 
arrangement at the time of the 
decision to sell and was related 
to the surplus above book value 
of£50m," he said. 


Nevertheless, shareholders 
are iikefy to be surprised at the 
size of the incentive and the fact 
that it was not capped at a 
particular leveL 

MEPC is no stranger to 
shareholder unrest Eighteen 
months ago, dismayed by the 
group’s flagging share price 
performance, investors ex- 
plored the possibility of en- 
couraging one of its rivals to 
mount a bid 

Mr TUckey survived by 
executing a sharp change in 
strategy decufingto sell off the 
group’s US and Australian 
portfolios. The bulk of the 
Australian properties have 
now also been sold, although 
they fetched less than book 
value. 

Despite the change in tack, 
however and the decision to re- 
turn a large chunk of the pro- 
ceeds of the sale to 
shareholders, MEPC’s share 
price has continued to head 
south. It recently hit a 12-month 

low of 373p - almost 40 per cent 

below its peak. 

Howevec MEPC’s directors 
are understood to be relaxed 
about the latest revelation, be- 
lieving that shareholders will 
accept the size of the payout 
when the details ofMrGruberis 
contract are explained to them. 


Buyout 
market 
slumps 
as debt 
dries up 

By peter Thal Larsen 


THE MARKET for management 0 
buyouts has collapsed in the 
final three months of the year 
as venture capitalists have 
struggled to raise debt to help 
fond their deals. The slump 
mp-ans large venture capital 
groups wifl have to downgrade 
the returns they have projected 
on their tends. 

figures published today by 
KPMG, the accountancy firm, 
show that 27 buyouts worth 
more than £l0m have been 
completed since tile end off 1 • 
September; with a combined *■»- 
value of £L4bn- 
This is half the value of the 
deals done in the final quarter 
of last yean and 60 per cent less 
than m the third quartec when 
buyouts worth £3.4bn were 
backed. 

The slump reflects the up- 
heaval in the financial markets, 
which has hit demand for the 
high-yield bonds used by ven- 
ture capitalists to finance that 
larger deals. Pears of a reres- 
sion in the UK have also 
prompted a more cautious 
approach. 

According to KPMG, it could 
take until the middle of next 
year before confidence returns. 
MBce Stevens, the firm’s head 
of management buyout ser- 
vices. said: “Larger more heav- 
ily leveraged deals and those 
involving businesses in vul- 
nerable sectors such as retail- 
ing or exporting have been 
particularty difficult to finance. 

It maybe some time before the . 
market starts accelerating 
again.” 

During the final quartec the 
average size of buyouts has 
fallen to £52m from £85m in the 
previous three months. This re- 
flects the lack of large buyouts 
which have dominated the ven- 
ture capital industry in the 
past yean 

Despite the downturn, 1998 
has still been a record year. A 
total of&Ulbn has been spent 
on buyouts in the past 12 
months, an increase of almost 
45 per cent from the previous 
record of £&2bn set in 1997. 

Nevertheless, the situation 
has put pressure on large v’en-jg' 
ture capital groups, most of* 
which have raised huge funds 
to pursue large deals. 

“For the time befog the 
money is stuck on deposit, 
earning ever-declining rates of 
interest,” said Mr Stevens. 
“Either the big private equity 
homes must wait the banks 
to re-enter the market or they 
must accept deals which in- 
volve a relatively high compo- 
nent of equity and less gearing. 
Either way, the returns they 
have projected over the next 

two or three years wil] have to 

be revisited" 

to foe past three months the 
largest deal was Charterhouse 
Development Capital’s acqui- 
sition of Mada m e Tlissaud's 


7771 i.-; 


for £435m- The deal was un- 
usual because Charterhouse 

used a large chunk of its op y 

equity to fend. The ventu m 

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BUSINESS/17 






Policy and the smuggling bonanza 


TAXING TIMES FOR TOBACCO 


UK Cigarette consumption, billions 


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AS THERE are only three more 
r cross-border) shopping days to 
Christmas, it is a good moment to 
reded on this great new British pas- 
time. Ever since customs bonier 
controls were dismantled in Janu- 
ary 1993, people have not been 
obliged to buy taxed cigarettes and 
alcohol, as the untaxed alternative 
has been available in large quanti- 
ties across the Channel. This poses 
a long-term threat to the tax base 
and to the rule of law, and threat- 
ens to turn the conventional wisdom 
on tobacco taxation on its head. Let 
me explain. 

In the past, consumption of 
alcohol and cigarettes in Britain 
was almost entirely from tawd 
goods bought on the high street 
This gradually changed as duty-free 
consumption became an increas- 
ingly significant source of supply. 
But the abolition of border controls 
has added an entirely new source 
of tax-avoiding supply - smuggled 
goods. 

Whenever two identical products 
are available in different jurisdic- 
tions at different prices, you must 
expect people to buy in the cheap 
country for resale or consumption 
in the expensive country. 

Usually this is called trade, and 
the activity tends to equalise the 
prices in the two countries. But 
when the authorities outlaw trade, 
and/or impose a tax on it, it is 
driven underground and becomes 
smu ggling . 



Bill 

Robinson 

The rewards of smuggling 
are now well in excess of 
the costs and the potential 
penalty of being caught 


The economics of smuggling are 
just like the economics of trade. It 
is only worthwhile if the price dif- 
ference more than covers the trans- 
port costs - plus, in the case of 
smuggling, a premium to induce the 
smuggler to run the risk of being 
caught Tobacco is an attractive 
good from the smuggler’s point of 
view because the price gap between 
the UK and Europe is large, and cig- 
arettes are small and light A van 
filled to the brim with cigarettes 
generates many thousands of 
pounds of revenue to the success- 
ful smuggler. 

However: when the ports and 
airports were closely policed the 


chances of getting caught were 
too great to make smuggling 
attractive. It is only since the bor- 
der controls were abolished that 
smuggling has grown up on any 
scale. This reflects a sharp fall in 
the expected costs of smuggling - 
the penalty for being caught mul- 
tiplied by tiie probability of appre- 
hension. The rewards of snuggling 
are now well in excess of the costs. 

Historically, most smuggling has 
been amateur - goods brought io for 
the smuggler’s own use. There is 
a natural limit to the damage done 
by amateur smuggling, set by the 
number of journeys people make, 
their personal needs and the phys- 
ical capacity of their means of 
transport Professional smuggling 
which is all about resale to third 
parties, has no such natural limits. 
If one van-load generates thou- 
sands of pounds of income, many 
vans will cross the ChanneL 

We can think of smugglers as 
entering a market where they have 
an identical product at a fraction of 
the existing market price. If they 
price at the exis ting level, they are 
hugely profitable. The profits 
enjoyed by the first entrants will 
attract others and competition for 
the contraband market will tend to 
drive down the price of contraband. 
As a result contraband will tend to 
increase its share of the total 
market and contraband suppliers 
will enjoy increasing economies of 
scale. 


Thus professional smuggling, 
once established, tends to grow. It 
quickly dwarfs legitimate cross- 
border shopping The UK authori- 
ties, who launched a pre-Christmas 
crackdown on smuggling last 
month, believe that contraband is 
costing the taxpayer n bn of tobacco 
tax revenue out of a total of £10bn. 
This compares with only £60m of 
revenue lost to cross-bonier shop- 
ping. These figures show that 
sm uggling is now a firmly estab- 
lished form of organised crime. It 
has become a business with a 
turnover measured in hundreds of 
millions and thousands of retail 
outlets. 

Despite the crackdown, this busi- 
ness is bound to grow. For example, 
industry experts believe that one 


cigarette in three smoked in Canada 
during the high tax regime of the 
early 1990s was smuggled. Canada 
provides a fascinating case study 
because data is available by 
province, and the incidence of con- 
traband across provinces varies 
with the distance from the border 
with the US -the source of cheaper 
cigarettes. 

The UK is moving rapidly in this 
direction. The official estimates on 
smuggling suggest that it is 
doubling every three years. This has 
profound implications both for tax 
revenue and for health policy. 

The usual assumption made by 
the authorities is that when they put 
up tax, the fall in sales is always 
much less than the rise in price. 
Smokers, for whom cigarettes are 


a necessity, are simply not very 
price-sensitive. They pay the extra 
tax and go on puffing. 

However: if the hardened smoker 
has the option of buying cheaper 
duty-free or contraband cigarettes, 
the effect of a tax hike is to make 
him switch. The more widely avail- 
able are cigarettes that avoid duty, 
the greater the chances that a tax 
hike will simply cause the smoker 
to switch to them when the duty 
goes up. 

The implications for tax policy, if 
you think about it for a minute, are 
pretty drestia Ev^ increase ta cig- 
arette duty wifi driro more smokers 
into the arms of the smugglers. This 
is bad for the rule of law and it is 
obviously bad for revenue. A less ob- 
vious implication, but a very dis- 
turbing one, is that it is also bad for 
the health of the nation. 

One oft-proclaimed purpose of 
having high tobacco taxation is the 
paternalist one of discouraging 
people, for their own good, from 
smoking. When the only available 
cigarettes were taxed cigarettes 
this policy worked - although it 
always conflicted with the govern- 
ment’s real objective in taxing 
smoking, which was to raise money. 
However, now that smokers have 
access to cheaper smuggled ciga- 
rettes, the effect of each duty 
increase is to make more of them 
switch to contraband. 

Smoking is an activity which 
has become increasingly concen- 


trated among the poor - the middle 
classes have all but given it up. And 
it is the poor who are targeted by 
the purveyors of contraband, who 
“push" smuggled cigarettes in 
many of the same outlets as illegal 
drugs. Raising duty rates does not 
affect the smoking behaviour of 
those who already depend on con- 
traband. But it does make contra- 
band more profitable for the seller 
and more attractive for the buyer. 
It thus increases the supply-push 
of illegal cigarettes to new users. 

Two conclusions follow. First, 
the Government is entirely right to 
crack down on smuggling. It is 
good for public health and good for 
tax revenue. No other policy meets 
both objectives, which usually 
conflict 

Second, the time is fast 
approaching when it will be nec- 
essary to attack the smugglers by 
destroying the source of their 
profits. That means cutting duty, as 
the Canadians did in 1994. It is polit- 
ically unthinkable at present but as 
the Canadians found, the logic is 
irresistible. A tax cut brings so 
many smokers back into the legit- 
imate market that it boosts revenue. 
And because these smokers are 
paying the full price, not the con- 
traband price, they smoke less. 
Good for health, good for revenue. 

BUI Robinson is director qf the 
Strategy and Policy practice at 
London Economics. 





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BAA’s Alconbury 
plan is grounded 


BAA, the airports operatoi; has 
suffered a blow to its plans to 
develop a former military air 
base into a road and rail dis- 
tribution centre, writes Philip 
Thornton. 

A plan by ADL, a joint ven- 
ture of BAA and Kingspark 
Developments, to convert the 
airfield at Alconbury in Cam- 
bridgeshire was rejected last 
week by the planning commit- 
tee of Huntingdonshire Dis- 
trict CoundL Councillors voted 
not to accept the plan and meet 
again today to formulate their 
grounds. 

A spokesman for ADL said 
it was disappointed at the de- 
cision, which was contrary to 
officers’ recommendation. He 


said the centre would have 
created 7,000 new jobs over 
the 7 million square foot site, al- 
though he did not specify the 
value of tiie project 

The spokesman said: “We 
are waiting to see the reason for 
the decision and depending on 
that we may or may not 
appeal." 

The setback is the latest for 
BAA over Alconbury. ADL was 
forced to withdraw plans for an 
airfreight terminal there in the 
face of strong public opposition. 

Its current plan involves tak- 
ing lorries off the road and 
putting freight on to trains. 
The site is near the A1 and A14 
roads and could be linked to the 
East Coast main rail line. 


No Christmas cheer 
for British industry 


by francesco guerreba News Analysis: A bleak new year 

of shut-downs, layoffs and reduced 
hours looms. Can more flexible 
working practices ease the pain? 


BRITISH STEEL, Port Talbot - 
shut British Steel Port Llan- 
wem - shut Royal Doulton, 
Stoke-on-Trent - shut Rover; 
Longbridge - reduced hours, 
fbrd, Dagenham - reduced 
hours. As the country's manu- 
facturers sink even deeper into 
recession, the message from 
the country’s industrial heart- 
land is: Britain is not working 
this Christmas. 

numbers give a graphic 
acSnmt of the plight of UK 
manufacturing. Overall, more 
than 11,000 workers will be 
forced to go home for the 
Christmas period because 
their factories had to shut earfy 
to cut costs. A further 19JW0 will 
work a shorter week, as com- 
panies reduce shifts to meet the 
slump in demand for their 
products. a * 

The problem is^flot new. 
Official figures show tiuft man- 
ufacturing output has been 
contracting for some time and 
some 60.000 jobs have already 
been lost in British industry 
skge the start of tfieyean But 
relent weeks have witnessed a 
pick-up in the flow of bad news 
coming from the country’s 
producers. 

In the last month or so, 
British Steel has announced 
massive job cuts, widely ex- 
pected to total 12,000, the per- 
manent closure of two rolling 
mills and sharp production 
curbs in other plants. Royal 
Doulton, one of the country’s 
leading pottery makers, has 
said that it would scrap one of 
its niain factories and make 
1.000 people redundant - a 
sixth of its work force. Rover 
and Ford, the two car makers, 
have fared slightly bettec But 
even their announcement of 
new flexible waking arrange- 
ments to avoid redundancies is 
a symptom that Britain’s in- 
dustrial heartbeat has slowed 
dov^to a faint pulse. 

reasons for the mami- 
*dctufers’ malaise have been 
around for some time. The 
strength of the pound and the 


flood of cheaper alternatives 
coming from the crisis-ridden 
Asia have destroyed the com- 
petitiveness of British exports. 
At home, the slowdown in the 
economy and fading consumer 
confidence are making life dif- 
ficult for UK-made goods. But 
if the problem is well known, so- 
lutions are not easy to find. 

As the example of British 
Steel has shown, there is very 
fittle an export-led company can 
do when the markets and the 
exchange rates are going 
against it The company is one 
of the most efficient producers 
in the world and has worked 



Lord Brookman: This is 
a softly-softly approach' 

hard to improve its perfor- 
mance in the past few years. 
But productivity is of little help 
when demand is not there. 

As one British Steel official 
put it The situation has got 

progressively worse during the 

first half of the year as the ef- 
fects of the Asian crisis have re- 
sulted in oversupply and price 
fans ” Hence the job cuts and 
the restructuring programme, 
which have received the bless- 
ing of the unions. 

Lord Brookman, the gener- 


al secretary of the Iron and Steel 
Trades Confederation, believes 
that the layoffs -to be achieved 
through vohm tary redundancies 
wherever possible - were the 
best possible outcome in the 
dire circumstances. 

He argues that without the 
unions, the cull would have 
been even more severe. “It is 
a cultural change. We have 
argued that this change in cul- 
ture can develop but we aren’t 
prepared to accept hard re- 
dundancies. This is a softly- 
softly approach". 

However, Lord Brookman 
admits that he failed to breach 
the company’s resistance to 
agree flexible working patterns 
in exchange for no redundan- 
cies along the line of the Rover 
and Ford deals. 

Those agreements, widely 
seen as a landmark in the his- 
tory of British industrial rela- 
tions, were a direct result of the 
tough export markets faced by 
the car makers. 

As the Asian demand for 
Fbrd Fiestas and Rover 200s 
slumped, the companies and 
the unions had to food a way to 
cushion the blow. In the words 
of one Rover official: Tn the car 
industry its very difficult to bal- 
ance supply and demand. We 
need the flexibility to be able to 
ebb and flow as the market 
does". 

The Rover deal, which will 
ensure that Longbridge plant 
stays open to produce the new 
Mini, can be described as 
“workers on tap". 

The company has the flexi- 
bility to ask the staff to work 
shorter hours during lean pe- 
riods and longer days in boom- 
ing times without having to 
pay overtime. As a trade-off, 
Rover's German parent BMW 
undertook not to lay off staff 

Tony Woodley; the unions’ 


chief negotiator in the talks with 
Rover; says that the arrange- 
ment is a radical departure 
from “the boom- and- bust" 
strategy of many British firms. 
However, he maintains that 
such deals are still too rare in 
British industry. 

The legal framework in this 
country is inadequate com- 
pared with other European 
countries. We are Europe's soft 
touches, the easiest and the 
speediest to sack," he says. 

But despite Mr Woodley’s 
scepticism, the need to move to- 
wards more flexible working 
practices is being increasingly 
recognised fry unions and em- 
ployers alike. 

One trade union official 
summed up the stark choices 
faced fry workers' representa- 
tives in the current economic 
gloom. “It’s very simple. There 
are two choices. To resist 
change and find out that the 
factory will dose anyway or to 
tell the company, ’We think 
than in a year's time you will be 
facing problems so let’s sit 
down and discuss how we can 
solve them.’ ” 

Ken Jackson, the general 
secretary of the Amalgamated 
Engineering and Electrical 
Union, believes that the first 
choice is not an option. “ Trade 
unions can’t stand stiff Our 
members don’t work for un- 
successful companies for very 
long, so it’s in our interest to 
help our industry to change 
even if that means difficult 
choices for us.” 

Employers agree and point 
to the advantages of having the 
workers on side when dealing 
withproblems. 

Neutral observers say that 
this spirit of co-operation is set 
to be put to the test by troubles 
to come. Both the Confedera- 
tion of British Industry and 
the Engineering Employers 
Federation predict more man- 
ufacturing gloom in the first half 
of 1999. Accorffing to some fore- 
casters, UK manufacturers will 
have to shed a further 125.000 
jobs before hitting the bottom 
of this recession. 





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THE INDEPENDENT 

Monday 21 December 199S 


BUSINESS/19 





The 20-year bull 
run is not over yet 


ITS BEEN a splendid year for 
blue chips, despite the au- 
tumn collapse of confidence, 
which prompted agonised 
squeals of despair and the 
usual array of declarations 
that the bull run was over and 
the bears would be left to 
feast on the bones of the stock 
market. 

Last week Fbotsie dosed at 
5,741.9 points, representing a 
not inconsiderable 600 gain so 
far this year and thereby pre- 
serving the 20-year bull run. 

Mind you, the index has not, 
as yet, lived up to the heady 
hopes expressed at the start 
of the year. But a merzy fes- 
tive run - the signs last week 
were encouraging - could 
push Fbotsie to a level which 
justifies the predictions cir- 
culating as 1998 got under 
way. 

Many City experts were 
convinced Footsie would end 
the year comfortably above 
6,000. They can, even if the sea- 
sonal run fails continue, say 
with justification they were on 
V-he right path. Unfortunately. 
5 they could be accused of get- 
ting one essential element of 
investment strategy hope- 
lessly wrong - their timing. 

The index crossed 6,000 in 
April and went on to peak at 
6,179 in July. Then it was 
downhill with a year's low of 
4,599.2 hit in October before 
sanity returned and a revival 
got under way. 

The slump, with the bene- 
fit of hindsight, had been wait- 
ing to happen. The simmering 
Russian economic crisis sud- 
denly exploded, prompting 
Asia's already appreciable 
problems to be regurgitated 
with increased force. 

A British businessmen be- 
came more vocal about the 
strong pound and its impact on 
company earnings, and prof- 
it warnings almost acquired a 
nuisance value. 

The misdemeanours of 
President Clinton started to 
ruffle New Ybrk and then the 
Long-Term Capital Manage- 
ment hedge fund disaster hit 
a startled market, provoking 
wild stories of a deluge of 
financial disasters and confi- 


Stock 

Market 

Week 




Derek Pain 


dent predictions that the 
world’s banking system was 
on the brink of collapse. 

As Fbotsie plunged, those 
earlier so -confident forecasts 
were pulled bade Bob Semple 
and David McBain at BT 
AlejcBrown, for example, re- 
vised their year-end estimate 
to 5,500. 

Tbe worries which created 
the autumn retreat have now 



faded. Still the problems of 
Asia and Russia have not gone 
away, and sterling, despite a 
cracking run of base rate cuts, 
remains resolutely strong. 
But the h anking crisis was a 
hysterical illusion and it would 
be surprising if the Clinton af- 
fair is not now largely factored 
into calculations. 

Although Footsie has. 
helped by the sheer weight of 
investment cash sploshing 
around the system, recovered 


much of its equilibrium and 
forecasts for next year are 
starting to look increasingly 
chirpy, the rest of the stock 
market remains a deeply de- 
pressed area 

Second- and third-line 
shares fluttered in the first half 
of the year, even hitting new 
highs, but their under-perfor- 
mance has been frightening, 
and the mid cap, small cap and 
fledgling constituents look 
bombed-out 

As Richard Jeffrey at Char- 
terhouse Tflney pointed out re- 
cently the small cap index has 
under performed the All- 
Share index a staggering 40 
per cent in the last two years. 

The stock market in re- 
cent times has become very 
much a market of two halves 
- Fbotsie constituents enjoy- 
ing all the fun and most of the 
rest limping along, looking 
decidedly distressed. 

The reasons for the con- 
trasting fortunes have been 
well documented. The lack of 
liquidity which hampers deal- 
ing in smaller company 
shares is increased by the re- 
luctance of many institution- 
al investors to venture outside 
the confines of Fbotsie. They 
want to buy and sell shares 
smoothly and easily and that 
is not possible with many on 
the under-card. 

It is a chicken and egg sit- 
uation; until big investors are 
prepared to take a more active 
interest in small company 
shares and liquidity in them 
consequently improves, they 
will remain neglected 

There is. of course, plenty 
of hidden value at today’s 
share valuations. The contin- 
uing flow of cash takeover 
bids, often from overseas, is an 
indication of the merits lurk- 
ing on the under-card. 

And the growing and rather 
worrying growth in manage- 
ment buy-outs is another ex- 
ample. It is understandable 
that managers become irri- 
tated by the low - and they be- 
lieve inappropriate - value 
placed on the their company 
and their labours by the stock 
market So they unlock value 
by mounting a cash bid. 


usually backed by venture 
capitalists. 

Independent directors and 
outside advisers are consulted 
but the managers are in a 
better position than anyone 
else to appreciate the true 
value of their company and it 
would be surprising if they do 
not make sure they get a bar- 
gain. Certainty they would be 
foolish to pay even a penny 
over the top. 

So at the end of the day it 
is the shareholder who is in 
danger of getting ripped off 
and as smaller companies are 
largely the preserve of small, 
private shareholders it is, as 
is so nftpn the case in the stock 
market, the little guy who 
suffers. 

Will the situation improve 
for the small company next 
year? Hope springs eternal. 
Mr Jeffrey says there is “ex- 
ceptional value embedded in 
small company ratings" and 
believes a rally could occur in 
the middle of next year 

Still, the long-running 
under-performance by the 
little 'uns provides fuel for 
the argument that the fact 
there are, in effect, two stock 
markets should be recognised 
try a two-way split - an in- 
ternational market for say 
the 100 shares in Fbotsie and 
the 250 in the mid cap index, 
and a domestic one for the 
rest 

Indeed it could be argued 
that the computerised order 
book, currentty embracing 125 
shares and intended eventu- 
ally to take in the top 350, is 
laying the foundation for an 
eventual division. 

Clearty the demands of the 
likes of Glaxo Wellcome, cap- 
italised at £71bn, are for re- 
moved from those of the little 
cider group Merrydown, with 
an ps 9m valu ation 

The requirements of insti- 
tutional investors and private 
shareholders are also vastly 
different Although there 
would obviously have to be 
cross-fertilisation, with big 
and small investors able to 
deal in both markets, a dual 
operation would have much to 
commend it 


Music sample strikes 
a note of contention 


WHO’S 

SUING 

WHOM 


JOHN 

W 1 LLCOCK 


MANFRED MANN (real name 
Manfred Lubowitz), the popular 
musician and songwriter who 
found fame and fortune with his 
eponymous band in the 1960s, is 
suing the extremely trendy 
group Massive Attack for 
alleged plagiarism. 

Mr Mann says that in 1971 he 
composed a song called “Trib- 
ute", which he then recorded 
with Manfred Mann's Earth 
Band 

Then in May this year Virgin 
issued an album by Massive 
Attack, Mezzanine, which 
carried a track entitled “Black 
Milk". 

Mr Mann says this track is 
about 128 bars long. His writ 
claims: “In 100 out of these 
approximately 128 bars there 
was incorporated by the Group 
(Massive Attack), in an identi- 
cal or in a substantially identi- 
cal form, a repeated two-bar 
extract taken from the record- 
ing by a process known as 

digital sampling " 

Mr Mann is seeking an 
injunction to stop further sales 
of the album, phis damage and 
costs. 

GRANADA and London Week- 
end Television (LWT) have 
fallen out with WEA Interna- 
tional and Warner Mnsic In- 
ternational Services over two 
recent films, Coronation Street 
Vwa Las Vegas and a compQa- 



Massive Attack: their song ‘Black Milk* is the subject of plagiarism allegations 


tion. Blind Date: Greatest Hits 
and Unseen Bits. 

The two British TV compa- 
nies made a deal to allow WEA 
and Warner to distribute videos 
of the films. Granada and LWT 
now claim they have received 
only £600,000 in advances from 
the US companies, several hun- 
dred thousand pounds less than 
they are due under the deal 
They now want an injunction to 
stop WEA and Warner from 
copying and distributing the 
films 

COCA-COLA and Schweppes 
went to court last week to force 
British Telecommunications 
(BT) to divulge the name and 
address of a person subscribing 
to a BT mobile telephone num- 
bec a person they suspect of 
infringing their trademarks. 

Under the Data Protection 
Act, in certain circumstances a 
service providei; such as BT can 
be forced by the courts to divulge 
the identity of a subscriber to a 
third party, overriding their 


rights to client confidentiality. 

Last Tuesday the court sup- 
ported the application, and BT 
handed over the name and 
address to the drinks compa- 
nies, which is continuing its 
investigations. The name of the 
person concerned remains con- 
fidential. 

THE USE of “Chinese walls" by 
accountants, lawyers, invest- 
ment h anks and other profes- 
sional firms will have to be 
re-examined following a land- 
mark ruling in favour of Prince 
Jefri of Brunei in his case 
against KPMG. 

Prince J efri younger brother 
of the Sultan of Brunei, hired 
KPMG in 1997 to review his own 
finances. This year the Brunei 
Investment Authority <BIA) 
launched an investigation into 
the Sultanate's finances, and 
especially Prince Jefri's affairs. 

When the BIA hired KPMG 
to carry out the review. Prince 
Jefri applied m the UK courts to 
stop them, saying their Chi- 


nese walls would foil to stop con- 
fidential information about him 
leaking to the BIA 

The law lords found in favour 
of Prince Jefri, and on Friday 
published the reasons for their 
ruling. They criticised KPMG’s 
“ad hoc" construction of a Chi- 
nese wall, and laid down ground 
rules for professional firms to 
follow in future. 

The law lords were particu- 
larly worried that the KPMG 
people working for the Prince 
who then worked for the BIA 
came from within the same 
department In future, Chinese 
walls should be used to separate 
different departments, and these 
departments should, where pos- 
sible, be housed in different 
locations. This should extend to 
different dining arrangements, 
according to Lord Miflett who 
wrote the judgment 

According to one of Prince 
Jefri's solicitors, Jeremy Cole, 
a partner with Lovell White 
Durrant the judgment will affect 
“everyone working in the City”. 


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Races of the departed: (left to right) Carlos Alberto Paniera, sacked fay Saudi Arabia; Cesare MaWini, resigned as Italy coach; Mario ZagaQo, sacked by Brazil; and Aime Jacquet, who has finished his FVance contract Empics/AHsport 

No fun on World Cup merry-go-round 


THEY ARRIVE needing one 
thing above all — time. In a few 
weeks they discover that this is 
the one element in short sup- 
ply and are shown the door. 
Most have their contracts paid 
in full but have lost their pride, 
a commodity more precious 
than any amount of cash. 

Christmas is a traditional 
time for the sack — but not the 
one that Santa carries. Six 
months after the Worid Cup fi- 
nals, only 10 — soon to become 
nine — national coaches of the 
32 teams that altered last sum- 
mer’s finals are still in their 
jobs, a poignant reminder of the 
fragility of a profession that 
pays handsome rewards but 
scant regard for reputations. 

While no one was the least 
surprised when, say Bulgaria's 
Hristo Bonev resigned after a 
woefully poor Worid Cup cam- 
paign, considerable sympathy 
has to be extended to the 
coaches of nations such as 
Saudi Arabia, South Africa, 
Tunisia and South Korea, all of 
whom were out of office even 
before the final game on July 12. 

Every finalist's ambition was, 
of course, to reach round two but 
16 had to go. To summarily dis- 
miss the coaches of those coun- 
tries who had always seemed 
likely to fall at the first hurdle 


BY ANDREW WARSHAW 

was little short of scandalous. 
Getting to the finals was in itself 
an achievement for such nations 
and should have been recog- 
nised as such by over-demand- 
ing national federations. 

Former England manager 
Bobby Robson, himself a victim 
of football politics at Barcelona, 
but with a passion for the game 
that remains un dimmed, re- 
members watching as coach 
after coach failed to finish the 
job he had started at France ’98. 

“It’s a fact: your reward for 
getting to the World Cup finals 
was to get the sack," Robson 
said. “The name of the game is 
to win but my word, it’s a thin 
fine. Look at Carios Alberto Bar- 
reira. Four years ago, he was 
the most important man in 
worid football having won the 
trophy with Brazil Two World 
Cup final matches later; this 
time in charge of Saudi Arabia, 
he loses his job after a game in 
which he has a player sent off 
against the host nation in front 
of 80,000 fans.” 

Parreira’s sacking, said Rob- 
son, was particularly unfair. 
“The fact is that Saudi Arabia 
had done quite well for 70 min- 
utes against France until the 
dismissal Then they buckled 


and Carlos Alberto is the fall 
guy. That’s unrealistic.’’ 

Parmra, who was linked with 
the vacant South Africa job be- 
fore it went to a local TriJtt 
Mokrto, was not the only fell guy 
By the end of France 98, Henryk 
Kasperczak at Tunisia had gone, 
along with Cha Bum-bun of 
South Korea, Boa MMinovic of 
Nigeria and Philippe Thoussiei; 
who has transferred his alle- 
giance from South Africa to 
Japan. Later; and more fa- 


Of Che 32 coaches ac Che 
World Cup la France last 
summer, 22 have now left 
their posts. 

The following is a list of Che 
departures since the start of 
the World Cup. which ran 
from 10 June 10 to 12 July. 
Argentina Daniel Passarella, 
resigned and replaced by 
Marcelo Bielsa. 

Brazil Mario Zagalio, sacked 
and replaced by Vanderley 
Luxemburgo. 

Bulgaria Hristo Bonev. re- 
signed and replaced by Dim- 
itar Dimitrov. 

Cameroon Claude Le Roy, 
end of contract, replaced by 
Jean Mangan Onguene. 


mously, others were forced but 
including Mario ZagaDo afBrazQ 
and Berti Vogts of Germany. 

Parreira, unlike some of his 
colleagues, took it all in his 
stride. He knew from his time 
with Brazil the unpredictable 
nature of being a football man- 
ager. He also knew how re- 
lentless the pressure could be. 

When in the hot seat of one 
the most high-profile football 
jobs in the worid, Parreira had 
to endure a terrible pasting 


Colombia Heman Dario Go- 
mez. end of contract, re- 
placed by Javier Alvarez. 
Germany Berti Vogts, re- 
signed and replaced by Erich 
Ribbeck. 

France AIrrfe Jacquet, end of 
contract, replaced by Roger 
Lemerre. 

Iran Jaial Talebi. resigned and 
replaced by Mansour Pour- 
heidari. 

Italy Cesare Maldinr, re- 
signed and replaced by Dino 
ZoFf. 

Japan Takeshi Okada. re- 
signed and replaced by 
Philippe Troussier. 
Netherlands Guus Hiddink. 
end of contract replaced by 
Frank Rijkaard. 


from the Brazilian press when 
things went wrong Going to 
Saudi Arabia had its own pres- 
sures but it was light years 
away from what he endured in 
Rio. 

“I remember how Graham 
Taylor was vilified in the Eng- 
lish tabloids after England 
failed to qualify for the 1994 
World Cup finals.” said Par- 
reira. “That was nothing com- 
pared to what can happen in 
BraziL They expect all the 


country’s political ills to be 
solved through footbalL" 

Parreira, like Robson, is now 
biding his time, as is Vogts, 
whose miserable reign as na- 
tional coach of Germany came 
to a sad and abrupt end in early 
September. 

German managers rarely, if 
ever quit Indeed there have 
only ever been sax in the last 72 
years. So when Vbgts announced 
that he wanted to call it a day to 
preserve some “human dignity” 


Nigeria Bora Milutinovic. 
end of contract, replaced by 
Thijs Libregts. 

Norway Egil Olsen, resigned 
and replaced by Nils Johan 
Semb. 

Paraguay Paulo Cesar 
Carpeggiani. end of contract. 
Not yet replaced. 

Romania Anghel lordanescu. 
end oF contract, replaced by 
Victor Piturca. 

Saudia Arabia Carlos Al- 
berto Parreira, sacked and re- 
placed by Otto Pfister. 
South Africa Philippe Trous- 
sier. end of contract, re- 
placed by Trott Moloto. 
South Korea Cha Bum-kun, 
sacked and replaced by Kim 
Mung-seok. 


Spain Javier Clemente sacked 
and replaced by Jorge Cama- 
cho. 

Tunisia Henryk Kasperczak. 
sacked and replaced by Fran- 
cesco Scogiio. 

United States Steve Sampson, 
resigned and replaced by Bruce 
Arena 

Yugoslavia Slobodan Santrac. 
retired and replaced by Milan 
Zivadinovic. 

The 10 coaches remaining in 
their posts are: Glenn Hod- 
dle (England). ReneSimoes (Ja- 
maica). Manuel Lapuente 
(Mexico), Henri Michei (Moroc- 
co). Craig Brown (Scotland). 
Georges Leekens (Belgium). 
Herbert Prohaska (Austria). 
Bo Johannson (Denmark). Mi- 
roslav Blazevic (Croatia) and 
Nelson Acosta (Chile). 


and spare his family the kindbf 1 
intolerable pressure that was 
being heaped upon him, you 
knew he meant it 

With several of his senior 
players privately rebelling 
against him an d headlines such 
as “Berti how much longer?” 
appearing in the national press, 
Vogts cut his losses and called 
it quits, the first time any Ger- 
man manager had done so in 
mid-season. 

And yet, he had only lost 12 
games as national team coach 
out of 102. “The way everyone 
complained, you’d have thought 
it was only 12 that I had won,” 
said the embittered Vogts, who 
has been replaced by the ex- 
perimental and far from con- 
vincing pairing of Erich 
Ribbeck and Uli Stielike. 

Other high-profile coaches to 
pay the price of so-called Worid 
Cup failure include Argenti- 
na’s Daniel Passarella, Samp- 
doria’s first choice before they 
went for David Platt; Italy’s Ce- 
sare MaJdinl replaced by Dino 
Zo£ ZagaDo, who has given way 
to the delightfully named Van- 
derley Luxemburgo; and, most 
recently, Spain’s pragmatic 
Javier Clemente, who has gone 
to Real Beds. 

Some, it has to be said, 
stepped down by choice, com- 


forted fay the knowledge 
theyperfonned better than theft* 
predecessors: France’s Aimft 
Jacquet now back in the bosom 
of the French federation; Nor- 
way’s Egil Olsen, who has just 
come out of retirement for the 
challenge of coaching Valeren- 
ga, Chelsea's nest Cup-Winners’ 
Cup opponents; and Guus Hid- 
dink, who left the Netherlands 
semifinalists to take over at Real 
Madrid and has been replaced 
by Frank Rijkaard. jf 

Whether by good fertinfc or 
good judgement Glenn Hoddte, 
so far at least is one of the 10 
who have survived. So is Craig 
Brown and, somewhat sur- 
prisingly, Georges Leekens of 
Belgium. 

Any day now, Chile's Nelson 
Acosta looks likely to be dis- 
carded and become number IS 
on the Wbrid Cup discard list 
Hold on, wasn’t it Chile who per- 
formed so sublimely against the 
Italians at France 98 and made 
more friends than arguably 
any other team? 

Christmas cheer? Don’sjyu 
believe it 

Tomorrow 

Glenn Hoddle locks back 
at England’s World Cup 


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Curley’s gamble with his life 



Barney Curley 
Giving a Little Back 

By Nick Townsend 
Collins Willow £15.99 

IF A SINGLE word could be 
found to unravel the enigma 
that is Barney Curley, it would 
be faith. In equal measure, his 
religion (Roman Catholic) and 
self-belief are the secrets of his 
success and notoriety and, his 
family apart, the most impor- 
tant things in a life that has, in 
its time, turned the tradition- 
ally conservative worid of 
horse racing on its head. 

Curley bom in County Ffer- 
managh. Northern Ireland, in 
1939 into a non-racing family, 
has become one of the most fe- 
rocious gamblers of recent 
times. But there is much more 
to him than that His father was 
ruined by gambling (grey- 
hounds, rather than horses) 
and young Barney though in- 
terested in betting, was study- 
ing to became a Jesuit when he 
contracted TB and, for a time. 


Book of 
the Week 


was close to death. When he fi- 
nally recovered, more than a 
year later, he decided that the 
priesthood was not for him and 
determined to try and make a 
living by betting, while at- 
tempting to avoid his father’s 
fete. Along the way he be- 
came manager of three suc- 
cessful showfoands, without 

having acknowledge of show- 

business or pop music. 

His early gambling lessons 
were painful ones, but he 
learned to watch and read 
horses and races as wefl as any 
trainer; a profession whose 
ranks he would eventually join. 
His first coup, which has be- 
come part of Irish racing folk- 
lore, was Landed in 1975 when. 

without breaking a sin gl e rule, 
he relieved the bookmakers of 
£300,000 with a hurdler called 
Yellow Sam. It was a brilliant- 


ly executed sortie, involving a 
trusted group of friends and 
the monopolisation of the only 
public telephone at Bellew- 
stown racecourse (in the days 
before mobile phones). 

Curley first came to promi- 
nence outside his native Ire- 
land in 1984, when he 
successfully raffled his ERE 1m 
home, Middleton House in 
County Westmeath, and 
trousered a tidy profit by sell- 
ing 9,000 tickets at IR£200 each 
(£175). Hie event described by 
The Irish Independent as "The 
second great mystery of Irish 
racing after Shergar’s disap- 
pearance” made news around 
the worid. 

Armed with his profit and 
after overcoming the minor 
problem of whether or not the 
lottery was legal Bernard 
Joseph Curley, horse 
owner/trainer, gambler and 
estate agent extraordinaire, 
decided the time was right to 
try his hick in England. 

Success over the water fol- 


lowed swiftly as did contro- 
versy, and author Nick 
Townsend chronicles several 
other huge gambles (mostly 
successful) as well as “The 
Graham Bradley Affair” and 
Curley’s doomed attempt to be 
the punters’ saviour with The 
Independent Racing Organi- 
sation, which attracted just 
290 members. 

Curley rarely speaks to the 
media. He has a deserved rep- 
utation for being difficult But 
Townsend, over many 
strength-sapping months, has 
obviously gained his trust and 
provides us with an illuminat- 
ing insight of a very private 
man and his secrets, (hie cel- 
ebrated chain of stores origi- 
nally decided not to carry the 
book, on the basis that not 
enough people bad heard of 
Curley When it appeared in the 
Irish best-sellers’ list shortly 
after publication, a quick 
change of mind followed. 

Good decision. 

Len Gould 



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United can supplant 
Juve as favourites 


JUVEntxjs. WHO struggled 
to qualify for the knock-out 
stages, are only mid-table in 
Sene A and have lost Alessan- 
dro Del Piero, their brilliant 
playmaker-striber for the sea- 
son, are favourites for the 
European Cup by virtue of 
having drawn Ofympiakos, 
the outsiders, in the quarter- 
finals. 

With a training regime de- 
signed to bring their squad to 
peak fitness only in the new 
year and, free to dip into the 
transfer market at that point, 
the side that won the 1996 
European Cup and should 
have accounted for the infe- 
rior Borussia Dortmund and 
Real Madrid in 1997 and this 
year, should make the semi- 
finals. 

However unless Juventus 
have found their stride both 
domestically and in Europe by 
that point the favourites by 
the semi-final stage will be the 
winners of the Manchester 


BY IAN DAVIES 

United v Internazionale tie 
which, worryingly for Red 
Devils fans, may pitch Ronal- 
do against Jaap Stam. 

Bayern Munich will be 
fancied to beat Kaiser- 
slautern, their Bundesliga 
compatriots but Real 
Madrid, the holders, are no 
certainties to overcome Dy- 
namo Kiev, although the 
Ukrainian outfit may be 
handicapped fay playing the 
tie during their close season. 

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THE INDEPENDENT 

Monday 21 December I99S 




SPORT/21 


Sharks 



looking 

sharp 


for final 


'i 
h 

. 3 SHEFFIELD SHARKS took the 

| easy road to next month's Na- 

v tional Cup final on their home 

J court at Sheffield Arena on 

I Saturday, while the Greater 

\ London Leopards earned their 

place the bard way by coming 
back from 18 points down to 
defeat the Newcastle Eagles 
98-95 in overtime. 

Sheffield should have ex- 
pected a harder battle against 
the Cup holders. But their 78-66 
victory was a re-enactment of 
the 19-point league win two 
( i weeks ago as Travis Conlan and 

! w r ' ereD Myefs dominated the 
j: $jack court with as much ease 
as Wfl Johnson and Todd Cau- 
thorn obliterated the Tigers 
under the basket 
Johnson, who scored 
Sheffield's last five points with 
a dunk and a three-pointer, 
took five offensive rebounds in 
the opening four minutes as the 
Sharks luxuriated in the knowl- 
edge that they could afford to 
miss, knowing they would get 
the ball back. 

An impassioned time-out 
plea by the Tigers coach, Paul 
James, who said: “You've bad 
your fun for five minutes, now 
go out and start playing," fell 
on deaf ears. 

. „ Even allowing for the ankle 
f ^flary which so severely re- 
. ' stricted Jason Siemon, Tigers 
_ showed little stomach for the 
— fight andCasEy Arena was fre- 
• quentiy left looking as agile as 
a statue while Conlan and 
. Myers ran him ragged. 

] Sheffield now meet the 
/% Greater London Leopards in a 

4 fj | ■ repeat of the 1997 final, which 
X S, \i the Leopards won 87-79 in the 



BASKETBALL 


by Richard Taylor 

Sharks' own waters. It is also a 
dream final for the English 
Basketball Association, the or- 
ganisers, because the Sharks, 
losers of only two games this 
season, will be the hosts at 
Sheffield Arena. 

Eagles, still 15 points up 
with nine minutes to play, were 
grateful to Tim Moore and 
Robert Youngblood, who in- 
spired Eric Burks' best half of 
basketball this season. 

Leopards drew level for the 
first time at 80-80 with 62 sec- 
onds to play, before Ralph 
Blalock’s jump shot gave New- 
castle a two-point lead with 
nine seconds left. 

Leopards needed an outra- 
geous refereeing decision, 
though, to get their chance in 
overtime when Stedroy Baker 
was given two free throws after 
he was plainly fouled passing 
the ball and not shooting. 

“You have to make your 
breaks." Billy Mims, the Leop- 
ards coach, said, and after re- 
covering an 18-point deficit 
they certainly (fid that. “The last 
two free-throws we got we 
made our breaks. We attacked 
the basket they didn’t get there 
and fouled us. Stedroy Baker 
had to make both and he (fid. 
What a great job stepping up to 
the line. In overtime we had to 
make our free throws and we 
did" 

LEADING SCORERS Greater London 
Leopards: Moore 22: Ybungbtood 16: 
Burks IS. Newcastle Eagles: Rce 28; 
Blakxk 1 9: Jackson 14. Sheffield Sharis: 
Johnson 30: Myers 21: ** T ~* - 7 Thun I 

UMey Age** Batter 1 8: McCord 1 8: Are- 
na 11. 



Stedroy Baker scores for Greater London Leopards against Newcastle Eagles on Saturday Robert HaUam 


Bradley severely censured 


Swiss miss is finally a hit 


THE BRADFORD Bulls’ re- 
cently retired captain. Graeme 
Bradley, has been ‘'severely 
censured and reprimanded" 
for remaita made about the ref- 
eree, Stuart Cummings, after 
the defeat by St Helens in the 
Super League play-offs. 

Bradley was sent off but 
later found not guilty of using 
anjfrJmw. It was his comments 
iH nanocal newspaper column 
that have brought this delayed 
action from the Rugby League, 
although it is difficult to see 
what effect it wfll have on him, 
now that he is no longer directly 
involved in the game 


RUGBY LEAGUE 


BY DAVE HaDFIELD 

The League has also intro- 
duced a system of licensing for 
players’ agents. In future, 
agents wffl have to be approved 
and to deposit a £30,000 guar- 
antee with the League. 

"Clubs will not deal with un- 
licensed agents,” said a League 
spokesman. 

The destination of the Silk 
Cut Challenge Cup final for 
the two years when Wembley 
will be under redevelopment 
has been decided and could be 


announced this week A few 
loose ends remain to be lied up 
with the sponsors before a 
major rugby union ground - 
Twickenham, Murrayfield or 
Cardiff - is confirmed as the 
venue for 2000 and 2001. 

The draws for the Cup from 
the fifth-round stage onwards 
will be made live on BBC's 
Sunday Grandstand. 

The BBC will once more 
screen two matches each week- 
end from the fourth round, 
when Super League clubs 
enter the competition, and the 
draw will be made after the 
Sunday televised game. 


SWISS FANS were finally able to 
jangle their cow bells in cele- 
bration when Karin Roten won 
a World Cup slalom yesterday 
and ended two years of disap- 
pointment for her country. 

Roten won on home snow in 
Veysonnaz, ending a humiliat- 
ing drought for Swiss women 
that stretched back to January 
1997 when Heidi Zurbriggen 
won a downhill in Cortina. Her 
compatriot Michael Van Gruni- 
gen, capped a good day for the 
country when he won the men’s 
Wbrld Cup giant slalom in Alta 
Badia after a superb second 
run. 


SKIING 


“It's a bit of a relief, it was im- 
portant for Switzerland be- 
cause we needed a win, or at 
least a podium this season," 
Roten said. Holding a slim 
0.23sec advantage over the 
America’s Kristina Koznick 
after the first leg, Roten 
charged down the deteriorating 
Piste d’Ours course in a com- 
bined time of lmin 28.8lsec, 
crossing the line to the dang of 
cow bells and wild cheers. 

In Italy, Von Grflnigen, the 
1997 giant slalom world cham- 
pion, finished in a combined 


time for the two runs of 2min 
41.0 Is ec to claim his first World 
Cup victory of the season.The 
Norwegian Lasse Kjus was 
10th but kept his lead in the 
men’s overall standings. 

On Saturday, the men’s 
Wbrld Cup downhill in Val Gar- 
dena saw the French Olympic 
champion, Jean-Luc Cretiei; 
crash badly. He was taken to 
hospital with a career-threat- 
ening knee injury' Kristian Ghe- 
dina won the race in 2mm 
04.l7sec. 

In Veysonnaz, Alexandra 
Meissnitzer of Austria won her 
first Wbrld Cup downhill. 


Nieberg’s 
clear route 
to clean-up 


LARS NIEBERG collected the 
winner-takes-all reward of 
£11,000 after jumping Loro 
Piana Albertino to four dear 
rounds in yesterday's Vink 
Masters on the fourth day of the 
Olympia Slow Jumping Cham- 
pionships. 

The German rider left his 
two closest rivals - Ludger 
Beerbaum (also from Ger- 
many! and Britain's John 
Whitaker - with just the £1,000 
that went to each of the six 
losers. Whitaker failed when 
Virtual Village Randi hit the 
second part of the final double 
in the fourth round, before 
Beerbaum and Champion de 
Lys took a rail off the big oxer 
at fence three. 

Revised rules meant that 
there would have been a timed 
jump-off had the competition 
gone to a fifth round but, un- 
fortunately, we were denied 
such a final showdown between 
top riders. 

Pleasing though it was, the 
prize could not compensate 
Nieberg for the loss of his top 
horse, Ptar Pleasure, who will go 
to a young German rider after 
this show. The stallion's owner; 
Robert Diestal, is apparently 
dissatisfied with Nieberg's 
record during his four years 
with the horse - even though it 
includes two runners-up prizes 
in the VjIvo Wbrld Cup final and 
team gold medals at the 


EQUESTRIANISM 


Genevieve Murphy 
at Olympia 


Olympics and the world and Eu- 
ropean championships. 

Last year Beerbaum won 
both the World Cup qualifier 
and the Masters at Olympia. 
John Whitaker must have been 
hoping to achieve the same 
double after his World Cup vic- 
tory here on Saturday when be 
completed a wonderfully swift 
jump-off round on 19-year- old 
Grannusch. 

Whitaker had thought of re- 
tiring his venerable partner 12 
months ago, but the horse has 
been in sparkling form this 
year, winning the first two legs 
of the Wbrld Cup final in April 
as well as the qualifier here. 
The Olympia victory once again 
underlined Whitaker's re- 
markable talent for keeping 
older horses fit and happy, as 
did his win in this year's British 
Jumping Derby at Hickstead on 
21-year-old Gammon. 

Robert Smith and another 
sprightly veteran. 18-year-old 
Senator Tees Hanauer; won 
yesterday's Vink Mistletoe 
Stakes. Although 14 horses 
were left to jump after his 
whirlwind round. Smith was 
always confident that he had 
outpaced the opposib'on and 
would win the contesL 


Loughtonians 
flourish indoors 


OLD LOUGHTONIANS gave no- 
tice of their intent of regaining 
their national indoor title with 
a powerful display of aggressive 
hockey as they strolled to a 
comprehensive Premier Holi- 
days East Super League victo- 
ry at Aldenham School over the 
weekend. 

As their coach, captain and 
manager, the Scottish in- 
ternational Colin Hector, said: 
“Realistically, indoors is the 
only chance of us winning a title 
this year and we intend to go 
for it" The signing of Guild- 
ford's player-coach Ian Jen- 
nings, who for more than a 
derade has had a successful in- 
door career with St Albans, will 
help their chances and cer- 
tainly improve their penalty 
corner conversion rate. 

The surprise team of the 
event was Dunton Engineering 
who started with a shock 8-6 win 
against St Albans and finished 
in second place behind the Old 
Boys. They owed their success 
to two Southgate players, Pietro 



By Bill Colwill 


Attalla, who scored most of the 
goals, and Kwandane Browne, 
who captained Trinidad at the 
Commonwealth Games. 

Eiko Rott, Southgate’s Ger- 
man striker, dominated the 
South championship with his 
dub qualifying along with West 
London Institute for the na- 
tional rounds. Yeov;l & Sher- 
borne and Firebrands were 
the two West qualifiers. 

Norton, with a 100 per cent 
record, won the North qualifi- 
er with second-placed Hull also 
going through to the prelimi- 
nary rounds of the national 
competition. 

The DTZ Midland competi- 
tion was abandoned when a 
goalkeeper in the Olton & West 
Warwick game against S tour- 
port at the Perdisweli Centre 
died a few minutes after 
admission to the Worcester 
Hospital. 


SPORTING DIGEST 




AMERICAN FOOTBALL 

The New Ybrk Jets won their first 
AFC Eastern Divisional title on Sat- 
urday as Vlnny lestaverde threw a 
pair of touchdowns In their 77-10 
victory over the Buffalo Bills. 

» [Sacnrday|: Buffalo Bills 10 New 
Hets 17; Washington 20 Tampa 

AMERICAN FOOTBALL CONFERENCE 
EASTERN DIVISION 

W L PF m 
-New York Jets .11 4 335 256 

Miami 9 5 274 206 

Buffalo 9 6 355 300 

New England B 6 303 377 

tiHinapnlB - .3 11 263 390 

* DtvtJcml Champions. 

ATHLETICS 

Andy Pearson got home by the width 
of his iersey to take the Reebok 
Cross-Country Challenge at Cum- 
bernauld on Saturday. Pearson and 
Dominic Bannister had drawn clear 
of the pack during the four-lap con- 
test. Bannister fighting back on the 
line as both men recorded times of 
26min 46sec. However. Pearson 
was given the narrowest of victo- 
ries by the judges, although there 
was some consolation for Bannis- 
ter, who retains the overall advan- 
. j§ after three of the five races. 
w85cld cross-country chal- 
lenge (Brussels) Men (10.5koi race): 
1 R Umo (Ken) 32. 1 4 seconds: 2 H Meto- 
nen (Edi) 32 . 1 5: 3 P Koech (KenJ 32.17: 
4 T Nyanki (Ken) 32.25; 5 P Kosgei JKenj 
32.43: 6 C Jorgensen (Den) 32 *5: 7 Mo- 
bammed MOurhlr (Pel) 32.46: 8 A 
Metegebu (EcfiJ 32.57: 9 H Jlfar (Eth) 
33.07: IO P Ctfmedo |Me»l 33.25. Stand- 
Lime 25 points: 2 Mekonen 22: 


(Edi) 20.34; 4 P Radciiffe (GB) 20-38: \ 
M Denboba fErti) 20.40: 6 B Adere (Eth) 


ivn amviucia iuvi p «• t ■- ■ ■ — ■»_ 

T Vtemi 25ptK 2 Sandeil 22: 3 Worku 1ft 
4 Radcliffe 1 7. 5 Denboba 16. 
REEBOK BRITISH CROSS CHAU- 


18,000ml: 1 A Pearson [Bkigfey) 2&nui 
46sec: 2 D Banister (Shaftesbury Bar- 
net) 26:46: 3 B Quinn (KHbaichan) 
27:05: A R Birchall (Blrchfield) 27:19: 
5 C Robison (Inverclyde) 27:23: 60 le- 
gate (Fife) 27:54. 7 C Wood (Bristol) 
28:01: B I Pearce (Tipton) 28:08; 9 D 
McNeillv INIri) 28:10: 10 A Puckri" 
(Tipton) 28:14: 11 A Coleman (Enfield] 
78:23. 12 G Hull (Leeds) 28:24: 13 G 
Pyrah (Edinburgh) 28:33: 14 G Thomp- 
son | Crawley} 28 : 35 : T5 S Cairns (Nlri) 
28:36 Women (6.000m): 1 V McPher- 
son (Qty of Glasgow) 2 3mm 04sec, a 
B Dagne (Essex) 23.06: 3 L Wpfhl 
(Leaks) 23:20: 4 H Heasman (AKrtn- 
' 3:30: 5 A Mudge (Camethy) 
T Kryzwicki (Charnwood) 
Ingham (Barnsley) 2 3:51: 8 
*• MacDougal! (Glasgow) 24:02: 
WiWnson|¥iiig!ey) 24:1 1; 10 L Talbot 
(Bedford) 24:21: 11 T Brindley 


(Aberdeen) 24:26: 12 S Partridge (City 
of Glasgow) 24:28: 13 T Thomson (Plt- 
reavie) 24:30: 14 P Powell [Blackburn) 
24:30; 15 N Lee (Huncote) 24:43. 

BASKETBALL 
SAMSBURVS CLASSIC COLA NA- 
TIONAL CUP Semf-fetals: Greater Lon- 
don Leopards 98 Newcastle Eagles 95 (Of). 
Sheffield Sharks 78 Thames ralley Tigers 
66 . 

BUDWE1SGR LEAGUE (SM): London 
Towers 86 Manchester Giants 91 . 
UW-BAU. TROPHY (SM): Leicester 
Riders 83 Milton Keynes Lions 76. 

BIATHLON 

WORLD CUP (Bratislava): Men's 
10km: 1 S Fischer (Ger) 24min 36 l sec 
(one penalty lap after the shooting): 2 
O Makihins (Lai) 24:54.6 (0): 3 R Pblree 
(Ft) 24:55.3 (0). 12.5km Pursuit: 1 5 
Fischer (Ger) 33:11.1 (2): 2 R PC free [Fri 
43.7 (31: 3 P Rostovtsev. Russia. 44.5 
(11. Overall standings farter 6 
events): 1 Fischer 134: 2 Fofree 125: 
3 Rostovtsev 121. Women's 7.5km: 1 
S Grekier-Petter-Memm (Gery) 20m In 
33.2sec (no penalty laps after the 
shooting): 2 UDJsl (Ger) 20:37.8 (1): 
3 L Grete Skjelbrcld (Nor) 21 :00.2 (1). 
10km Pursuit: 1 U Dbd (Ger) 31 min 
26.5sec (3 penalty laps): 2 Greiner- Per- 
ter-Memm (Ger) +13.3sec (3); 3 KApei 
(Ger) +15.6 (3). Overall standings 
(alter 6 events): 1 Disf 1 54 pts( 3 vic- 
tories): 2 Forsberg 154 (2): 3 Grdner- 
Pener-Memm 142. 

BOBSLEIGH 

WORLD CUP (La Plague, Fri: Four- 
man: 1 Germany I lmin 55.3Qsec: 2 
Switzerland I 1:55-76: 3 Germany III 
1:55.82; 4 Latvia 1:55.86: 5 France I 
1:55.95. 

BOXING 

Floyd Mayweather retained his 
World Boxing Council super-feath- 
erweight title by stopping his fel- 
low American Angel Man fredy In the 
second round of their scheduled 1 2- 
nound bout in Miami on Saturda: 
WORLD BOXING UNION Ml 
DLEWEMHT CHAMPIONSHIP 
(BrindsL It): A Cardamom: (It) bt S 
Branco (It. champion] ko 10th. 
PROFESSIONAL PROMOTION (Emr- 
ten Park Sports Centre, Uvarpool): S- 
rd featbnrw eight: M Gomez 

(Manchester) bt K Shell (Cardiff) rsc 4th. 
12 rds World Bordug Organisation In- 
ter-continental iinmknlanwMK ti- 
tle: G Thornhill (Liverpool, herder) bt S 
Conway (Dewsbury) rsc gch.Bj+dsmiap- 
fpMk aravtohg A Freitas fBral bt P Bucfc- 
ley (Birmingham) rtd 4th. 8-rd 
Up bt-ie lter ui e ight: R Hatton (Man- 
chester) bt P Denton (Birmingham) rsc 
6th: 6-rd M kI iL -Ote f ™ Ij g rT Pfaamck 

cteteObthKuki (FWWway) rtd , 5t ^ i 6 ~ *^ 

JMrt-mWdJeswdgbC M Jo«s iLweroooO 
btO Abrahams (Watford) pts. 8-rd 
Bgte-he .wwalgail: 0 Wemetsen (NorJ 
bt D Asluon (SIX**) rsc 2nd. 




CRICKET 

The first Test between New Zealand 
and India was abandoned on Sun- 
day without a ball being bowled af- 
ter being rained off for the third 
consecutive day. The decision to call 
off the match with two days re- 
maining took into accounr the state 
of the ground, as well as adverse 
weather forecasts for tomorrow. If 
the weather improves today, Che two 
sides will stage a 50-overs day/night 
exhibition match. 

In Falsa labad, fog again made play 
impossible on the fourth day of Che 
third and Final Test between Pakistan . 
arid Zimbabwe. With the African side 
leading the series 1 -0, they are now 
virtually certain of sealing their 
first overseas Test series victory. 

TOUR MATCH {Pfecennarffzbarg. SA): 
S ec on d day of tear West Indies 256-6 
(5 Qianderpuil 1 32no] v South Africa A. 
SHEFFIELD SHIELD (Second day of 
four) Sydney: New South Wales 360 (P 
A Emery 58: M bines 4-69. S K Wane 2- 
80): Victoria 279-3 (B J Hodge 120. MP 
Mott 621. Brisbane: Queensland 164 and 
127-7 (M L Hayden 51; C R Miller 2-23. 
G Denton 2-23j: Tasmania 229 ID F Hills 
60. M J Di Uenuro 59: A J Btehel 4-102). 
Perth: South Australia 503-6 dec (D A 
FiogeraJd 167. J M Vbughan 1 57no. B A 
Johnson 73): Western Australia 182-3 (J 
L Langer 64). 

EQUESTRIANISM 
INTERNATIONAL SHOW JUMPING 
CHAMPIONSHIPS (CHfmpU. London) 
Truidau W orld Cap Qualifier: 1 Vir- 
tual Village Grannusch (J Whitaker. GB) 
clear. 28.47sec 2 Poor Boy (B Macndll. 
Swlt) clear. 29.13; 3 Virtual Village Ash- 
ley IM Whitaker. GB) clear. 30.66; 4 Cal- 
vara V fW Mefligei. Swit). clear. 35.75; 5 


League: 1 B MJndll (Swlt) 55plS: 2 T 
Coyle (irl) 40: 3 M Whitaker IGB) 39: 4 
j Taps (Hoi) 32; 5- j Fisher (GB). R Bril 
(Hoi). W Melliger (Swlt) 27. Other 
British: 13= J Whitaker. N Skelton. R 
Smith 20. Tfudata Tbp Score: 1 It's Me 
(L Beerbaum. Ger) I.340pt5. 56 7Bsmn 

2 Nissan Cat&flgo Z [J Las ink. Hoi) 1.220. 
48 52, 3 Loro Piana Icamorka (J Smli. It) 
1,220. 61.12; 4 Traxdata Glenwood 
Springs (T Stock dale. GB) 1.1 70. 54.16: 
5 Gravur 004 (B Maendli. S«ir) 1.1 10. 
46 80; & Cometto (L Pedersen. Den) 
1.040. 55.93. PAO Events Christmas 
Caro) Stakes: 1 San Patrignano very (F 
Sloodiaak, Ger) 47.56sec; 2 loro Plana 
Leonidas [L Nieberg. Ger} 49 79: 3 BB 
Corlanaa (W Meillger. Swlt) 43.80: 4 Vir- 
tual Village Do It (N Skelton. GB) 49.92; 

3 Candyfloss (P Lejetme. Bell 50.88: 6 
Peter Ran V (B Mandil. Swlt) 51.30. Vink 
Masters (vilnaer-takes-all) : 1 L 
Nieberg (Ger) 4 clear Founds. Vink 
Mistletoe Stakes: 1 Senator Tees 
Hanauer (R Smith. GB) clear. 46.00sec: 

2 Corianda (W Meiilwr. Swlt) dear. 47. 16: 

3 Walfcka Forever (p L^Jeune. Bel) clear. 
47.26. PAO Events Christmas PodtBng 
Srakas: 1 Balrlmoor (G GuHIksen, Nor) 
clear. 29.39seu, 2 Unddame |F 
Sloothaak) clear. 3l,oe: 3 Lora Puma 
Cassandro (J Smli. It) clear. 38 6i 


FOOTBALL 

TRANSFERS: Dairid Lee (defender) 
Chelsea to Bristol Rovers (free): Bfrklr 
KrbcfnsvoD (goa keeper] Nork opplng 
(Swe) to Bdron (free); Don Goodman 
(forwandl Sanfrecce Hiroshima (Japan) 
to Barnsley (loan); Howard Foriaton 
(forward) Birmingham to Plymouth 
(loan); Glenn Crow* (forward) Wolves 
to Plymouth (trial). 

GOLF 

COOLUNI CLASSIC (Coolum. Aas) 
Leading final- round scons (Aus 
unless stated): 271 5 Appleby 69 70 
63 69: 275 C Spence 65 67 71 72: 278 
C Parry 72 68 69 69. T Carolan 72 71 
70 65; 279 P Senior 73 70 65 71. S 
Laycock 71 69 69 70. M Cain 70 71 68 
70. OttieR 294 D Watson (Eng) 73 73 
76 72. 

HOCKEY 

ASUN GAMES (Bangkok) Men’s float: 

Korea l India I (fndfa win A-2aps): Third 
place play-off: Pakistan 3 Japan 0. 
Women's final: Korea 2 India 1; Third 
place play-off: China 2 Japan 0. 
PREMIER HOLIDAY'S EAST Premier: 
Bishop's 5 ton lord 1 Colchester 4. 
SOUTH Pr em J vr : Beckenham 1 Purtey 
Walcoun tains 1. 

SURREY CUP Second round: Old 
Cranlelghans 8 Barnes 0. 

PREMIER HOLIDAYS EAST INDOOR 
SUPER LEAGUE (Aldenham School) 
(Saturday): Dunton Engineering 8 St 
Albans 6: Bhieharts 4 Chelmsford B: 
Spalding 7 Dunton Engineering 9: Old 
Loughtonians 8 BLu charts (Sunday): 
Blueharts 4 St Albans 4: Spalding 8 
Chetmsfoid 8: Dunton Engineering 1 old 


Loughtonians 8 Chelmsford 2; Spall 
9 Bui charts 3: Chelmsford 9 Dunton 
Engineering 8: St Albans 4 Old Loughto- 
nians. Standings: 1 Old Loughtonians 
I3pts: 2 Dunton Engineering 9; 3 St 
Albans 8. (Ottf Loughtonians * Dunton 
quolify\. 

SOUTH INDOOR CLUB CHAMPI- 
ONSHIP (Epsom CoOcgel: Pudey Wal- 
countians 3 Lewes 11; Maidenhead 8 
Ramgarhia 13: Portsmouth 6 Sou true j 
7 Old Bordenlans 4; Old Hokombelans 
0 Southgate 12; Bromley 11 Pur ley 
Walcoun Sans 4; West London Institute 
17 Maidenhead 9; Eastcore 16 
Portsmouth & South sea 4; City of 
Portsmouth 5 Old Holcombdans 3; 
Lewes 6 Bromley 7; Ramgarhla 6 West 
London Institute 1 1: Old Bordenlans 8 
Easccote 10: Southgate 12 City oF 
Portsmouth 7. Semi-finals: Bromley 3 
Sourhgace 1 1 ; Eaaccote 8 West London 
Institute 9 (Southgate ond West London 
Institute qualify ). 

NORTH INDOOR: Stockton 3 Sheffield 
Bankers 15: Norton 5 Hull 2: Doncast- 
er 15 Stockton 2: Sheffield Bankers 1 
Norton 4: Hull 6 Doncaster 4. Final 
standings; 1 Norton 12pts: 2 Hull 9; 
3 Sheffield Bankers 6 (Norton and Halt 
qualify ). 

DTZ Midland Indoor CbamploBSMp 
(Birmingham) Pool A: Bar ford 
Tigers 5 Epgbaston 0; Mansfield 1 Bar- 
ford Tigers 16: Cannock 5 Edgbaston 


0: Edgbaston 0 Mansfield 5: Mansfield 
0 Cannock 6: Cannock 2 Barford Tigers 
9 (Barford Tigers qualify) Pool B; 
Khalsa 6 South Notts 5: Leek 6 Khal- 
sa 4; Bridgnorth 4 South Notts I: 
South Notts 1 Leek 5: Leek 5 Bridg- 
north 2: Bridgnorth 2 Khalsa 3 (Leek 
qualify). (Worcester) Pool C: Har- 
bome 13 Broms grove i: Loughborough 
Students 9 Harbome 6: Nottingham 10 
Bromsgrove 3: Bromsgrove 1 Lough- 
borough Students 15: Loughborough 
Students 7 Nottingham 5: Nottingham 
12 Harbome 5 | Loughborough Students 
qualify). Pool D: Stourporr 8 5ikh 
Union 1: Olton £i West Warwick 2 
Stourport 2 (Match and tournament 
abandoned following collapse of a 
player). 

NORTH Indoor (Pecerlee): Norton 6 
Doncaster 5: Sheffield Bankers 1 Hull 3. 
Stockton 4 Norton 8: Doncaster 6 
Sheffield Bankers 7; Hull 14 Stockton I. 

ICE HOCKEY 
BALTINA CUP (Moscow): Russia 2 Fin- 
land 2: Sweden 2 Czech tepubHc 1: Swe- 
den S Russia 3 (Sweden win 
tournament); Czech Republic 6 Canada 
3 (Czech Republic finish second). 

NHL (5mtday): Edmonton 4 Tampa 
Bay 1: Buffalo 4 Montreal 2; Dallas 3 
Detroit ?: Calgary 5 New Jersey 2: 
Ottawa 5 Carolina 1: Anaheim 2 NY 
Islanders 
3 Chi 
treal 

Rangers 4; Carolina 3 Buffalo 2: Flori- 
da 3 Edmonton 1; Pittsburgh 3 Wash- 
ington 0: St Louis 5 Los Angeles 2; 
Nashville 6 Vancouver 4; San Jose 2 Coh 
orado I. 

SEHONDA SUPER LEAGUE (Stcor- 
Cardiff 5 Ayr 2: Newcastle 1 

LUGE 

WORLD CUP (Wlaterterg, Ger): 
Men’s slagles: 1 G Hackl (Ger) 



287. Doubles: 1 M Grimmetre. B Mar- 
tin (US) lmin 32.641sec (1st run 
46.663 sec. 2nd run 45.978): 2 T 
Schiegl. M Schlegl (Aut) 1:32.902 
(46.783. 46.1 19); 1 P Leltner. A Rescn 
(Ger) 1:33.052 (46.961. 46.091). Lead- 
ing naadlags (after four events): 1 
Gnmerte. Mar tin _3 12 pts: 2 Schlegl. 


u 

Schiegl 301; 3= C Niccum. M McLain 
(U5) 286 . Nomen's singles: 1 S 
39 ( 


raushaar (Ger) 1:33.789 (46.105, 
7.6B4I: 2 S Erdmann (Ger) 1:34.033 
16.330. 47.703): 3 B Niedemhuber 


(US) 

Kraushaar 
47.1 

146.; ... . . . 

(Ger) 1:34.061 (4S.875. 48 186). lead- 
ing standings (after four events): 1 
Otto 32Qpts: 2 Kraushaar 316: 3 
Niedemhuber 301. 

NORDIC SKIING 


222. AalOftm fiwayh/cbsslc relay: 
1 Norway lhr 38mln 48.2 sec; 2 Swe- 
den 1:38-48.5: 3 Austria 1:39:27.1. 
Women’s 15km classic: 1 O Danilova 
(Rus) 4 lmin 1 1.Osee 2 BMarunser (Nor) 
+0.2sec: 3 L Lazutina (Rus) + 1 1 .6. * N 
Gaurll|uh (Rus) +13 3. Ovendl World 
Cup standings: 1 Martirsen 2 94 pts: 2 
K Neumann ova (Cz Rep) 285: 3 GavrUiuk 
250. 


POOL 

MOSCOHD CUP (Bethnal Green. Lorv- 
Statts 7 


140: A H Maier 


Details (US names first): E Strickland 
and X Davenport bt O Or unarm and S 
Knight 7-1: N Varner and J Archer bt M 
Immoncn and R Souquet 7-5. R Pierce 
and J Rempe lost to S Davis and F 
Perrani 7-1 

RUGBY LEAGUE 
SILK CUT CHALLENGE CUP Second 
round (Saturday): Askam 25 Heworth 
2 l 2; Beverley East Hull 12 Itawnville 28: 
Dodworth 12 Castle ford Lock Lane 24; 
Dudley HBIl 29 Wigan St Ffetrichs 8: Ecdes 
37 Norman ton 16: Moldgreen 21 Oul- 
ton 18: Norland 39 Crosfields O: Old- 
ham St Annes 34 Elienborough 6; 
Queens 28 West Hull 40; Rochdale May- 
field 28 Hull Dockers 10; Saddleworth 
10 Walney Central 6; Siddal 24 Feath- 
erstone MW 7; Sklrlaugh 8 Ideal Isberg 
2: Thornhill 25 Barrow Klard 12. Wigan 
Rose Br 6 Leigh MR 17; Wigan Sr Judes 
32 WocXston 8. Postponed: Egremont 
v Haydock: Feathers cone Lions v Oven- 
den (fester-day): Warh Brow 16 Lon- 
don Skolars 10. 

SAILING 

Andy Green has been invited by the 
America's Cup skipper John Kollus 
to join the afterguard of the Aloha 
tune-up boat in Hawaii next year. 
Green, one of Britain's brightest 
young match racing prospects, has 
also signed a two-year deal giving 
him and his crew - Jim Turner. Ger- 
ard Mitchell and Tim Powell - back- 
ing on the world circuit from the 
reinsurance group. Margent In- 
ternational. 

Giovanni Soidini extended his lead 
to 129 miles over second -placed 
Marc Thlerceiin cm the second leg 
of the Around Alone Race from Cape 
Town to Auckland yesterday. With 
2.600 miles to go and a New Year's 
Eve finish predicted, Mike Golding 


predict* 

has moved Britain's Group A to with- 
in six miles of Thiercefin. while Is- 
abelle Audssier slipped a further 200 
miles behind. 

SKIING 

MEN'S ALPINE WORLD CUP (Val 
Gardena, h) Downhill: 1 K Gnedina 


WORLD CUP (Dm», Swlt) Men's 
3<nun classic: 1 B Daenile (Nor) lhr 
14min 49Jsec: 2 A Prokuiorov (Rus) 

+30.1 sec 3 M Bocvlnov (Aut) +Imin 
25.Bsec * E Jevne (Nor) + 1 ;30.5: 5 M 
Frebriksson (Swe) +1:39.2. Overall 

3 E Sn * K Ghed'n’M ’50i 3 W Franz (, 


(It) 2 min 04,1 7set; 2 L Kjus (Non 
2:04.31: 3 W Franz (Aut) 2:04.45: 4 H 
Maier (Aut) 2:04.65: SKA Aamodt (Nor) 
2:05.10. DU not start: A Freshwater 
(GB). Downhill standings (altar 
(fence races): I L_Kjus (Nor) 280^t5. 


er (Aut) I10:5L Catta- 
neo (It) 107. Giant Slalom (Alta 
Badia, It): 1 M Von Gruenleen (Swit) 
2mln 41 01 sec (first leg 1:18.56. sec- 
ond teg 1:22.45): 2 P Holier (It) 
2:41.77 (1:18.42/1:23.35); 3 A Schlf- 
ferer (Aut) 2:42.26(1:19.13/ 1:23.13): 
4 H Maier (Aut) 2:42.84 
(1:19.45/1:23.39); 5 R Sattgeber (Aut) 
2:42.90 ( 1:1 9.68' 1.23.22) Giant 
slalom standings: 1 Ebemarter 
ISOpts: 2 Von Gruenigen 171: 3 Mayer 
(Aut) 170; 4 Maier (Ait) 150: 5 Holi- 
er 140. Leading overall standings: 1 
Kjus 519; 2 Maier 440; 3 Eberharter 
403: 4 Aamodt 401. 5 Mayer 382. 
WOMEN'S ALPINE WORLD CUP 
(Veysonnaz, Swlt) Downhill: 1 A 
Meissnitzer (Aut) lmin 42.68sec: 2 R 
Cavjgnoud (Fr) 1:43.00: 3 R Gtitschl 
(Aut) 1:43.17; 4 C Rey-Beilet (5witJ 
1:43.46: 5 F Masnada lFrl 1:43.47. 
Leading downhill overall standings: 
1 Gotscni 278pts: 2 Metssniuer 255: 3 
Kostner 192: 4 H Gerg 189; 5 Cav- 
aenoud I 86. Slalom: 1 K Roten (Swirl 
lmin JB.aisec (42.09/46 72): 2 K 
Koznick (US) 1:29.31 (42.32/46.99): 3 
A P&erson (Swe) 1:29.62 (43.05.'46.57); 
4 P Wiberg (Swe) 1:29 75 (43.20/ 
46.55): 5 T Bakhe (Nor) 1.29.89 
(42.58/47.30). Leading overall stand- 
ings: 1 A Meissnitzer (Aut) 775pts: 2 
R Gficchl (Aut) 422: 3 M Enl (Ger) 416: 
4 R Cavagnoud (Fr) 368: 5 H Gerg 
340. 


! (Ger) 


1 CUP (Harravow, Cz Rep): 1 

en (Fin) 109.0m. 132 0m. 
s: 2 R Homscftuii (Ger) 1 10.0. 


SKI JUMPING 

WORLD Cl 
J Ahorwn 

235.3pts: 2 R Homscftuh (Ger) 

126.0. 221.8: 3 K Funaki (Japan) 107.5. 
123.5,217.8 Overall standings (after 
seven events): 1 M Schmitt (Ger) 
540pts: 2 Ahonen 508: 3 Funaki 406: 

4 S Hanna wa Id (Ger) 233: 5 N Kasai 
(Japan) 232. 

SNOOKER 

IRISH OPEN (Dublin) Semi-finals: A 
McManus (5co) bt T Drago (Malta) 6-3: 
M Williams (WaJ) bt J Parrott (Eng) 6-1. 

SPEED SKATING 
WORLD CUP (Chunchon, S Kor): 
Men’s 500m: 1 J Woctterspoon (Can) 
36.54 sec: 2 Jaegal Sung-yeul (S Kor) 
36.60: 3 J 1 none (Japan) 36.81; 4 H 
Shimizu (Japan) 36.85; 5 T Kuroiwa 
ipan) 36.85; 6 C Fltzrandolph (US) 
1.88: 7 M Honl (Japan) 37.04; 8 T Swbt 
(F\3l) 37.05. 1,000m: 1 J Wfothertpoon 
(Can) lmin 13.36sec 2 P Abratklewicz 
(Pol) 1:14.63: 3 J Parker (Can) 1:14.81: 
4= T Kuroiwa (Japan. Choi Jea-bong IS 
Kor) 1:14.87; 6 C RtzRandofph (US) 
1:14^3:7 Elorlam (It) 1:15.03: 8 J Han- 
ninen (Fin) 1:15.60. Women's SOOnu 
1 M Garbrecht iGer) 39.74: 2 C LeMay- 
Doan (Can) 39.77: 3 E Sanmiya (Japan) 
39.89: 4 E There* Hoisetii (Nor) 40.14. 

5 C Witty (US) 40.37; 6 C Zunmack (Ger) 
40.39: 7 Manll Wang (Ch) 40 60: 8 Rul- 

40.72. 1,000m: 1 M Gar- 


hong xuejOi) 40, 
bremi 


(Ger) 1-20.17, 2 C Witty (US) 
1:20.95: 3 E Sanmiya (Japan) 1:21.02; 
4 C LeMay-Doan (Can) 1:21.17; 5 A 
Tonoike (Japan) 1:21.94: SASannes (US) 
1-22.12; 7 t Therese Hoiserh (Nor) 


SWIMMING 

BRITISH SHORT COURSE CHAM- 
PIONSHIPS (Glasgow) Men: 50m 
butcerny: 1 M Jones (Ealing) 24.55 
(Welsh Record). 2 G Prffllps (Ha van r * 
Water loo vi lie) 24.69: 3 5 Mavm 
(Loughborough Univ) 24.35. 100m 
backstroke: 1 J Hickman (Leeds) 
53.45; 2 N Widey (Bath Unrv) 53 74. 
3 S Ffcrry (Liverpool! 5r*.l5 1 0Om but- 
terfly: 1 C Foot (York) 1:01.18. 2 N 
Jackson (Derwentslde) 1.01.47 ( British 
Junior Record): 3 M Peddei 
(Portsmouth) and G Lee iCamphill 
Edwardlans) 1.01 77. 100m breast- 
stroke: 1 D Mew (Bath University) 
lmin O 70 sec: 2 R Maden iBath Uni- 
versity) 1:02.20; 3 G Bretiell (Barb 
University) 1:02.43. 100m freestyle: 
T J Hickman (Leeds) 48.57sec: 2 5 
Brinn (Bath University! 4S.98: 3 M 
Kidd (Leatherhead) 49 33. 100m 
Individual medley: 1 N Poole 
f.20see: 


(Portsmouth) 57. 


2 P Pote 


(Bach University) 57.90; 3 D Carry 
(Aberdeen) 58.98 200m butterfly: 
1 D Wigg (Newcastle) 2 00.08: 2 E 
Clemen t( Killer whales) 2:01.24; 3 C 
Jones (Newcastle) 2.01.49. 1500m 
Freestyle: 1 G Smith (Stockport) 
14:46 36: 2 I Wilson (Leeds! 15-06.78. 
3 G Orphanldes (Portsmouth) 
15:18 41. 4vl00m medley relay: 1 
Barh University 3:38.72; 2 Edinburgh 
3:43.42: 3 Loughborough University 
3:46 37. 

Women: SOm backstroke: 1 K Se»- 
ton (Portsmouth) 29.33. 2 K Jiggins 
(Coventry) 29.59: 3 Z Cray (Ipswich) 
29.59. 50m freestyle: 1 A Sheppaid 
(JVUIngavie & Bearsden) 25 10: 2 S 
Hopkins [Loughborough University) 
25.95. 3 C Davies (Leedsl 26.09. 
lOOtn breaststroke: 1 L Hlndmarsh 
(Leeds) 1 :9.68: 2 H Earp (Nova Cen- 
turlonl 1:09 92: 3 E Dutton (Leeds) 
1:1 1.82. 100m Individual medley: 

1 D Borland (Ren 96) 1:04.92: 2 K 
Evans (Nova Centurion) 1:05.41: 3 J 
Lyes (Hillingdon) 1:05.10. 20Om 
freestyle: 1 C Huddart (Leeds) 
1.58.61: 2 K Pickering (Ipswlchj 
1:59.23: 3 V Horner | Stockport Mer- 
ros) 2:00.52 20Om Individual med- 
ley: 1 S RoJph (Newcastle) 2:13.08: 

2 K Evans (Nova Centurion) 2:18.80. 

3 S Nesblt (Portsmouth) 2:19.74. 
400m freestyle; 1 K Legs (Fern- 
down) 4:09.75. 2 V Horner (Stock- 
port) 4.10 62; 3 C Smart (Mlllfield) 
4.1 1.66. 4*1 OOm freestyle relay; 1 
Loughborough University 3:46.20; 2 
Nova Centurion 3:46 44: 3 City of 


Centurion 4.18 12 


1:22.49. 


TENNIS 

GIROBANK TOUR (Nottingham) Men's 
final; N Weal (GBl br P Hand (GB) 6-4 
6-4. Women’s final: J Lutrova (Rus) tit 
K Wame-Holland (GB) 6-0 6-3. 

VOLLEYBALL 
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Mnnrfav 21 December 1998 



Cherry-picking Tigers eat their fill 


IT IS ONLY a weak ligament we 
are talking about here; not a 
snapped A chill es, or a broken 
back, or an all-over stress frac- 
ture of the body, but a measly 
centimetre of fibrous connec- 
tive tissue supporting the mus- 
cle structure of Phil Vickery’s 
bull neck. Sadly, for the Engs- 
holm faithful, this apparently 
modest orthopaedic complica- 
tion has left a once virile 
Gloucester pack in a state of 
collective emasculation. From 
unique to eunuch in a matter 
of weeks. 

Vickery’s condition, not yet 
career-threatening but of pro- 
found concern to both player 
and dub, goes to the heart - on 
rather, the balls - of Glouces- 
ter’s predicament Shorn of 
the raw strength their 22-year- 
old C-ornishman brings to their 
front row, Gloucester have no 
set-piece platform worthy of the 
name. And that means trouble 



CHRIS 

Hewett 


Gloucester 

Leicester 


18 

23 


with knobs on. It does not take 
a scientific mind of Newtonian 
stature to arrive at the most 
basic law of rugby physics: 
namely, that what goes back in 
the scrum goes out with a 
whimper 

Bristling with a nap hand of 
international tight forwards 


and a titan of a No 8 in Martin 
Cony, Leicester inflicted upon 
the Cheny and Whites a roast- 
ing of such hellish proportions 
that the visiting backs could af- 
ford an afternoon off and still 
pocket the spoils of victory: 
Three of Tim Stimpsozi’s six 
penalties came as a direct re- 
sult of the Tigers’ scrummag- 
ing superiority. And, while it 
was possible to listen to a Wag- 
ner opera in the time it took 
England’s former full-back to 
complete his kicking routine, he 
at least gave the Gloucester 
heavy brigade ample opportu- 
nity to reflect on their inade- 
quacy. 

Disturbingly for the Kings- 
holm infantry, the Vickery- 
shaped cavalry is not expected 
to arrive for another five weeks 
at least “I can’t see Phil play- 
ing before February,” said 
Richard HD1, the Gloucester 
coach. “We need to get him ab- 


solutely right before we pick 
Mm again, because no one in 
their right mind takes chances 
with a neck injury. He’s had CT 
scans, MRI scans, brain scans, 
you name it and none of them 
have revealed any structural 
damage. But he does have a lig- 
ament weakness, and it's a se- 
rious problem, especially for a 
prop. If you have a dodgy ankle 
li gament , you C?n strap the 
ankle. What you can’t do is 
strap a neck. 

“Phil is worried about the 
long-term implications for his 
career and X don't blame Wm. 
He must be thinking: “Hey, Fm 
22 and if Fm not very careful, 
I could find myself back on the 
family farm shovelling pig ma- 
nure.’ It’s a desperate shame, 
not least because he has such 
a big fiiture internationally. He 
can’t even run at the moment 
because it would jar his neck.” 

By sharp contrast, Leicester 


are far too well endowed to re- 
gard any one player as incBs- 
pensible; haring arrived in the 
Cotswolds without Joel Stran- 
sky, Will Greenwood and 
Nnamdi Ezulike, they simply 
shrugged their shoulders and 
played to the strengths that re- 
mained. Thqy even managed to 
make light of the temporary ab- 
sence erf their outstanding cap- 
tain, Martin Johnson, who was 
sin-binned at the end of the first 
quarter for his frank and forth- 
right contribution to a nasty 
little flare-up at the coalface. 

Gloucester attempted to 
capitalise, but failed so miser- 
ably that Johnson returned 
from his lonely dressing-room 
vigil to find his own side three 
points to the good. 

Indeed, there was an air of 
inevitability about the pro- 
ceedings, despite Gloucester’s 
second try three minutes into 
the second half - a carefully 


planned strike created by Steve 
Qjomdh’s inspired blind-side 
feed from the base of an un- 
stable scrum and completed by 
Mark Mapletoft in the right cor- 
net Although Mapletoffs hand- 
some conversion left Leicester 
11-15 down, there was some- 
thing distinctly false about the 
deficit sure enough. Cony and 
company changed up a gear; 
pitched camp in the Glouces- 
ter half and earned Stimpson 
enough shots at goal to wrap iqi 
the result 

“They're title material,” ac- 
koowiedged Hill, bluntly adding 
that his own side were qmte the 
opposite. “The Leicester pack 
is the best in the business at 
scrum time; they work' over- 
time in that area and have 
based their whole game 
around it 

“Not many sides can hold 
them up front, and, if you add 
to that their consistency the 


fact that they are more capa- 
ble than any of their rivals ot 
holding their form, then you 
have to say they are potential 
champions. 

“As for us, Premiership 

pants are almost of secondary 

importance now. The priority is 
to crack the secret of main- 
taining our concentration and 
commitment throughout the 
full 80 minutes of a game, 
something we still find impos- 
sible away from home. 

u Fve been here three years 

now, and it’s time we put this 
whole away thing behind us. 
Look at the top sides and you 
see 15 players with real belief 
that they will win, no matter 
how bad things might seem. If 
you have two or three without 

that belief, as we do, it spreads 
like a cancer through the 
whole side. We need to start 
believing." 

Leicester’s levels of belief 


are 


at this relatively early stage o! 
the campaign, it is difficult to 
argue with the Gospel Ac- 
cording to Saint Deano. 

“The beauty of these players 
is their perfectionism,” he 
beamed on Saturday evening. 
“They know the perfect game 
of rugby is unachieveable, but 
it doestft stop them trying.” Ebr 
all their flaws at Eingsholm - 
and they were far from im- 
maculate in many areas - they 
are well on course for a taste 


of heaven in May. 

(Homester; IHcs Johnson, Mapletofc 
Conversion Mapletoft: Penalties 
Mapletoft 2 . Leicester: Try Lougheed: 
Penalties Stimpson 6 . 


fidfer. ... - 

S OJomoti, N Carter. 


ter. P Howard, 
A 


Healey: Q Rownm-e (L , -- 

CocKertli. D Gar torch. M Johnson (captjL 


F Van Heerden. P Gustard. M Cony. 
Bach. 

: N Williams (Wales). 


Bath slump 
to record 


fifth defeat 


PROFESSIONAL sportsmen 
adhere to the principle that 
you make your luck. If that is 
the case, then right now Bath 
are making the wrong sort of 
luck Their acting captain, Andy 
NicoL not the most fortunate of 
players when it comes to injury 
lasted just nine minutes of the 
bitter defeat against Saracens 
before joining a growing queue 
of casualties in the Bath squad. 

Suspected medial ligament 
damage to his left knee - to be 
confirmed later today - could 
keep him out for the rest of the 
season; at best he mil be out of 
action for a few weeks. When 
the names of Phil de GlanvUle, 
out for 10 weeks after an oper- 
ation on his dislocated shoulder 
Mark Regan (two more weeks 
after concussion*, captain 
Richard Webster 'another fort- 
night! and Jon Preston 'four 
months after surgery on a rup- 
tured Achilles tendon* are 
added to the equation, anyone 
would feel entitled to whinge. 

But the reigning European 
champions, while not playing 
well, are not panicking yet If the 
first thing that their coach. Andy 
Robinson, did was to reach for 
a can of Bath's sponsors' dder 
after crashing to an unprece- 
dented fifth league defeat in a 
row, no one was blaming him. 

“You don't mind me turning 
to alcohol?" he quipped, before 
settling down to parry the awk- 
ward questions. The boos and 
jeers which had followed Bath 
off the pitch would still have 
been echoing in his head and 
they would have hurt him. 

“The fans are entitled to 
their opinion," acknowledged 
Robinson between sips. “We de- 
served it the way we played 
today." But pain was screwed 
harshly into the features of the 
man who shared in some more 
celebrated records as a player 
with the once mighty dub. 

Robinson has more reason 
than most to bemoan his side’s 
fortunes, but to him they would 
be mere excuses and he has 
never resorted to those. “We 
have to front this up and ask 
what we are going to do about 
it,” said the former England 
. flanker. “There are a lot of 
proud people at this dub.” 

And he rejected a suggestion 
made last week that the soul 
had gone out of the dub. “We 
are just not playing well." in- 
sisted Robinson, who has had 
supporters advising him in no 
uncertain terms to resign, “and 


BY DAVID LLEWELLYN 


Bath 

Saracens 


U 

19 


when you are down, and you are 
losing things do not go for you. 
But I am not going to give this 
up. I am not going to walk out 
on Bath. I still think there is 
plenty for us to play for this sea- 
son and we have the ability." 

Mark Evans, Saracens’ di- 
rector of rugby seemed almost 
shocked by inept performances 
from both sides. “This was a 
shadow of previous Bath sides," 
he said. “For so long Bath have 
been in a league of their own. 
They had an aura about them, 
but that dearly does not exist 
any longer. I wonder if it will 
exist again for anybody." 

Robinson insisted that com- 
parison with past Bath sides 
was a non-starter. “It is time to 
consign the old, amateur Bath 
to history where it belongs," he 
said. “The old Bath was great 
and to be a part of it was fabu- 
lous, but now we are into some- 
thing else. Our history did not 
come about through brilliant 
rugby, it was because we won. 

“Winning is the important 
thing and it's a lot harder these 
days. The game is in a world- 
wide market and there are 
players of outstanding talent 
from overseas playing for Eng- 
lish dubs, which was not pos- 
sible in the amateur era." 

The Bath public, weaned on 
a diet of incredible success, is 
finding a new regimen of defeat 
unpalatable, but Robinson will 
not be moved that easily; be has 
given too much to the dub. Nor 
will he venture into the trans- 
fer market Not for him the 
short-term solution. He has 
been nurturing youth and is un- 
afraid to blood the youngsters. 

“I’ll be looking at some 
young players in the chib," said 
Robinson. “We have plenty of 
options and a lot of talent com- 
ing through." The other dubs 
may have pulled the plug, but 
not all the water has gurgled 
down the plughole yet 

Bath-. Try Balshaw: Penalties Can 2 . 

renscroft; Conversion 
i Johnson 3 : Drop goal 



The Saracens captain, Frangois Pienaar, breaks loose to ask searching questions of a depleted Bath side at the Recreation Ground on Saturday 


Peter Jay 


Sweet revenge as the Best men win 


as: U-y RavenscroFr 

s Penalties 


Johnson; I 
Penaud. 

Batin M Retry. I Balshaw. K Maggs. J Girs- 
cott. A Adebavo: M Can. A Nicol (cape. S 


Hatley, 9 ): DHiinn (j Matlen. 73 ). A Lor^. 


V Lfbogu, S Box rh wick (B Stumham, 

N Redman. R Eamshauu (N Thomas. 50 j, 
□ Lyle. E Peters. 

Saracens: G Johnson: B Daniel. R Con- 
stable. S Rarenscroft. R Wallace: A Penaud. 
K Bracken: D Flacman (B Reidy 72 ). G 
Chuter. P Wallace. <B Reidy 31 -AO). P Johns. 
D Grewcock. T Coker (P Ogllvy. 66 ). T 
Diprose. F Pienaar (capt). 

s: A Rowden (Thatcham). 


DICK BEST, who might have 
been a slave driver had he not 
become a rugby coach, an- 
nounced that he was giving 
the London Irish squad Christ- 
mas Day off “Fm weakening,” 
he said. 

Best was imbued with the 
festive spirit following the 
Exiles’ rousing victory over 
Harlequins at Sunbmy. By 7pm, 
8,800 pints had been drunk in 
the club house bars, and that 
was just Guinness. A win in the 
Premiership is always wel- 
come, but beating Quins has al- 
most become one of Best’s 
missions in life. 


by Tim Glover 


London Irish 
Harlequins 


20 

16 


After being dismissed as 
their coach. Best took the club 
to an industrial tribunal until 
Quins settled at the Ilth hour 
Andy Keast, who was also 
shown the door at The Stoop, 
works as Best's assistant at 
London Irish but in an unoffi- 
cial capacity. He is being paid 
by Quins up to June and until 
that time cannot be employed 
by any other chib. “I don’t re- 
ceive a penny from London 


Irish,” Keast said. Thus, on 
Saturday, he too supped a de- 
lirious cocktail called Revenge. 

Last season, Quins hit a new 
low at S unbury conceding 60 
points. This time round they ar- 
rived having won six Premier- 
ship matches in a row but were 
without their player-coach, 
Zinzan Brooke. 

Leading 16-10 midway 
through the second half, Quins 
conceded a penalty try for not 
retreating 10 yards when the 
Irish were awarded a series of 
penalties close to their oppo- 
nents’ line. 

Despite a shambolic perfor- 


mance at the line-out, the Irish 
deserved their success in front 
of a crowd of 5,460. 

They were for more adven- 
turous and their first half try by 
Stephen Bachop was quite 
magnificent Jarrod Cunning- 
ham. fielding a kick near his 
own line, brilliantly turned de- 
fence into attack and the move 
was sustained by Connor 
O'Shea in the back row. 

Tm very proud,” Best said. 
“Wfe played with some passion 
and proved we can be a good 
side if we can win 50 per cent 
of the line-outs. The team is 

starting to gel and it may be the 


start of something. This has 
helped make Christmas almost 
tolerable." 

London Irish will not get 
much of a break. On Boxing 
Day they play Richmond at the 
Madejski Stadium. Richmond, 
of course, felt compelled to 
move from the Athletic Ground 
after their plans to develop the 
facilities were stymied by the 
local council. London Irish are 
in a simflar position at Sunbuiy. 

They have been talking to 
Chelsea about a possible move 
to Stamford Bridge but they 
have not given up hope of stay- 
ing at Sunbuiy where they own 


19 acres. If they are not aDc 
to develop the ground, 
could sell the land for housing 
and that might be a more un- 
attractive proposition to the 
local residents. 

London Irish: Dry Badiop. Penalty 
trios Collins, Cunningham ( 2 ). Pt mH Jes 
Cunningham ( 2 ). 

Harlequins.- Try Wood. Conversion 
Schuster. Penalties Schuster ( 3 ). 
London Irish: C O'Shea (capt). J Bishop. 
N Burrows (R Todd. 60 ). B Venter. J Cun- 


ningham (N Woods. 80 ). S Bachop. K Purr. 
N Hatley. M Howe (R Kirke. 60 ). K FuU- 
71 ). R Strudwtck. M 


FuU- 


man (R Hardwick. , ... 

O'Kelly. J Boer. R Gailacher (K Spicer. 68 ], 
K Davison. 

Harlequins: J Williams. O Luger. D Officer. 
J Schuster. D CVLaary (1 Keyter. 75 ) . T Laoott 
leapt), H Harries (C Wright. 36 ). G Hatpin 
(D Barnes. 68 ). K Wood. J Leonard. G Mor- 
gan. G Llewellyn. R Jenkins. C Sheasby A 

Referee: E Morrison (RFU). 


Cardiff consider secession Newcastle grab Sale bargain 




CARDIFF HINTED last night 
they are considering joining 
another union in the event of 
possible expulsion or seces- 
sion from the Welsh Rugby 
Union. Their chief executive, 
Gareth Davies, indicated the 
move after watching Cardiff 
throw away a substantial lead, 
and alm ost certain victoiy, to 
slump to their fourth consecu- 
tive Anglo-Welsh defeat 
Cardiff, and their fellow 
rebels Swansea, are refusing to 
pay a £150,000 fine imposed on 
them by the WRU for arrang- 
ing these unsanctioned friend- 
ly matches against English 
dubs. “We are certainly not 
going to pay the fine,” declared 
Davies. "One option for the 
WRU is to expel us for not pay- 
ing the fine. We can’t wait until 


BY DAVID LLEWELLYN 


Wasps 

Cardiff 


28 

24 


the 28 Ftebruaiy deadline before 
deriding what to do. Wb have to 
look at the options open to us 
int the event of that" 

One of those would be to join 
the Rugby Football Union, a log- 
ical step given the Anglo-Welsh 
set-up, and Davies did not rule 
that out “It is almost getting to 
the stage where we will have to 
approach another union," he 
said. 

Cardiff do not even know 
when they can play Llandovery 
in the Swalec Cup. Building 
work at the Arms Park delayed 
Saturday’s fourth round tie. 
Cardiff have offered any mid- 


week date between nowand the 
end of January, but the junior 
club claims too many of their 
amateur players cannot take 
time off 

So all that is left is the Anglo- 
Weish series. And on' the evi- 
dence of this little thriller, 
cross-border competition 
should prove beneficial all- 
round to northern hemisphere 
rugby. It kept a 4^95 crowd in- 
terested to the end despite the 
chill 

Gregori Kacala, Cardiff’s 
monster Pole at the bade of the 
scrum’s one-man stampedes 
scattered opposition bodies. 
Behind him Lee Jarvis fre- 
quently got his backs muring 
and the powerful and pacey 
Leigh Davies posed plenty of 
problems. His two breaks in the 


same move, and his cunning 
grubber kick, led to Cardiff’s 
opening try by stand-off Jarvis. 

Bte Wasps’ four tries were, in 
the end, derisive. The first saw 
hooker Simon Mitchell speed 
into the right hand corner; the 
second came from young prop 
Andrew Le Chevalier, and the 
third from replacement hooker 
Dinos Alexopoulos. Josh 
Lewsey got the crucial touch- 
down late in the game. 

Wasps: Tries Mitchell. Le Chevalier. Alex- 
opoukH. Lewsey: C o n vers i o n King: I 
ties King 2 . Ciiuilt .7 


: THeS -lands. Humphreys; 
Comerstoe Jarvis: Pnudttes Jarvh 4 


Green leapt). A Reed. 5 Shaw |M Weedon, 

M). e Romu. 


P Scrivener. F Rtrcamewx \ j 

Woniey. 64). 

Cardiff: C Morran; 5 HID. L Davies, M Wih- 
de. A SuWvan; L Jarvis. R Jones. A Lewis. J 


Humphreys Itapc PJjbug ^JS* ).^. Musioe. 


KSrewart |S Moore. 641. Dlones. OWBUarra. 


G Kacala. D Baugn (S Moore. 60 -El). 
■: G Bowden flaffs Well). 


THIS SEASON Newcastle have 
only fleetingly revealed the 
form that took them to the 
title. But they produced enough 
of it in patches, against a diffi- 
dent Sale side, to hoist them- 
selves a couple of places up the 
table in a match which 
promised much but, which be- 
came terribly disjointed in the 
second half until Garath Archer 
sealed victory with Newcas- 
tle’s fifth try. 

This was the first of four 
games for Newcastle against 
teams from the bottom five 
within the next two weeks. 
Moreover with a match in hand 
over some of their challengers, 
ff Newcastle wore to ph± up the 
maximum eight points, they 
wfll need no reminding that the 
outcome of the title race is far 


By Paul Stephens 


Newcastle 

Sale 


30 

15 


from a foregone conclusion. 
And with Sale being the most 
likely to interrupt those ambi- 
tions, the two points they 
picked up against the Man- 
chester side was a handy start. 

On a crisp, dry afternoon, the 
game got off to a cracking start. 
What distinguishes Newcastle 

from roost teams in the Pre- 
miership is that they invariably 
make the most of advanta- 
geous Held positions; especial- 
ly at Kingston Park, where they 
have not tasted defeat in the 
league for almost three years. 
Within two minutes Newcastle 
had established a foothold deep 


in Sale territory. From the line- 
out Doddie Weir popped the 
bafl to Pete Walton, and Gary 
Armstrong burrowed over for 
a trademark try. 

Sale’s response was imme- 
diate and telling. Peter Angle- 
sea was allowed too much time 
on the ball Richard Smith and 
Shane Howarth took it on. and 
Steve Haney completed the 

move for a superb try. While this 

was a sharp reminder of Sale’s 
ability to score tries from all 
parts of the field, it was not until 
Shane Howarth scored a de- 
lightful individual try in the 
third quarter that Sale offered 
any real threat 

If only they could add some 
substance to their style, and 
find a way of winning more 
often away from Heywood 


Road, they would be in the top 
half of the table. 

However if Jonny Wflkms on 
and Rob Andrew had not 

missed four conversions, defeat 
would have been more em- 
phatic and a try count of five to 
two tells its own story. Stuart 
Legg bagged two, and Martin 
Shaw another before the break. 
Thereafter; only Howarth and 
Archer took the eye, as Peter 
Angjtesea. Kevin EUls and Ross 
Nesdale were sent to the sin-bin. 

NMKaufelHas AmwunaU*g 2 ,S»uiW 
Archer. Convarsten Wilkinson: FonaftJ 
VwWnson. Salat Tries Hornarm. Hank* 
vauNiiluB Howarth; Ffeoalcy Howarth. 

" It S Leap I Maybe M Shaw J WBhin- 


— = •ASb a ivoim, m juawi a 

v Tutemwia: R Andrew (capo, G Arrn- 
6 Grafcwn. R Nesdale. M Hurta D W# 
“ ^Mn. J Cannita (R toted. 61 )- 


R Beattie. 

S»lKj MalBnder leapt); M Mm e. B-J wi 
lows, s Hanley. S Howarth. R Sm 6 -. r 
EW*. 67 ); P VHitsunim P Greening. D 8 ** 
5 Rjwahii. D Baldwin. P Angtesea. PSareW- 
son (A Sanderson, 73 ). J Madacek. 


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THE INDEPENDENT 

Monday 2 1 December 1998 


Punters feed 


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RACING/23 


grist to Mill 




"'TOfr* rfy- 


WHEN A horse is owned by the 
company behind a tipping ser- 
vice it is a fair bet that sub- 
scribers to that line are going 
to be among its most enthusi- 
astic supporters. Yesterday, 
just 24 hours after betting 
opened on Boxing Day’s King 
George VI Chase, Tee ton Mill, 
owned by the Winning Line 
tipping service, was the subject 
of a plunge tor the big race. 

Available at 9-2 before bet- 
ting opened yesterday, Teeton 
Mill is now generally a 3-1 
chance, although Stanley Rac- 
ing still offer 7-2. There is a good 
chance that those odds will be 
taken and that Tbeton Mill will 
usurp See Mae Business at the 
head of the market at some 
stage during a week in which 
there is little live racing to 
keep punters amused. 

Caution though should be ex- 
ercised. A similar gamble on 
Teeton Mill took place before 


By John Cobb 

his emphatic success in last 
month's Hennessy Gold Cup, 
but he drifted out to 5-1 on the 
day as on-course bookmakers 
without ante-post liabilities 
were prepared to accept bets on 
him and the soft-ground per- 

RICHARD EDMONDSON 
Nap: Rainstorm 
(Ling Held 3.40) 

NB: AofFe 
(Ling field 2.40) 

former Seven Ibwers came in 
tor misplaced support 
In other words, do not rush 
down to your High Street shop 
this morning with your Christ- 
mas club money, but contem- 
plate your selection over a 
turkey sandwich on Boxing D^y 
when the important factor of the 

going can be included. 


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* Kempton - Boxing Day 

•• ^ 

m l [o~on] pertemps king george vi chase (class warn 
A) £100,000 added 3m Penalty Value £ 60,000 WmMM 

40F-40 CHALLENGER DU LJUC (21) (D) (D A Jdhraon) M Pipe 6 ti n - 

Mr- OP- IP COOME HRL (28) (D) (Ms J Demis) W Demla 9 fl c J Osborne 

,£7” 'S ZP2P-P CYBORGO (FR) (7) (CD) ICarty Stores HoOrgs] M Pipes ti * — 

"U ‘ si. 3 21-423 ESCARTEFJGUE (FH) pi) (D) [D Mercer) 0 Nkhdscn 6 11 D R Johnson 

'1 m CB-5P GO BALLISTIC (42} (D) (Mrs B J Lmihan) D Nfctatson 9 Tt 10 - 

’Tb % ^ 0-fftI IMPERIAL CALL (20) pi) (Losatan Farms) fl Hkjrkey IYI) 9 ti t) - 

- a 8143-0 MULLIGAN (14 (Q (U*fy Hans) D Ndwbon 8HO _A Maguire 

S *041 SEE MORE BUStfESS (21) (CO] |P Baiber/j Kaitfiey) P Kfchdfc 8 it D J Tdzanl 

f 62-322 SIMPLY DASHING (14) (S Harrrond) T Easerby 7 If D. IWyer 

'L j. : 21-66 SUPER TACTICS FB) {CO) (H tf Pbt>| H Atiar tm C A Thornton 

: >1 Bl-T TEETON MILL (28) (D) (Ths Wtoring Lue) Ifcs VWHsnsS n V ..NWDfaman 

41 / 01-63 THE GREY MONK (14) (D) (A Dutfl N Retards 1) 11 S . 

•fe - 12 declared - 

1 BETTING: 

‘t I CoraL- 9-4 See More Basknss, 3-1 Teeton MSI (from 7-2}, 4-1 Imperial CaB, 9-2 Singly Dash- 

7 I Ing, 9-1 Eecartefipe, 14-1 CtmBenger Du Luc, 16-1 Coome HO, 2W Super Tfcttaa, 33-1 MuJ- 

| Bgan, 50-1 Go Ballistic 

J WBTiam Wb 94 See Hon Business, 3-1 Teeton MS, 4-1 Imperial Coll, 5-1 Simply Dashing. 

« B-i EscarMSgue, 12-1 Challenger Du Luc, 16-1 Super tactics, 20-1 The Gray Monk, 25- 1 Coome 

n HBf, 40-1 Mtftgen. 80-1 Go 

2 LefamkaK 5-2 See Mora Bushinas, 3-1 Teeton HH, 7*2 Imperial CeA 5-1 Sknpiy Da&hkig, 8-1 

a Escartafgue, 10-1 Challenger Du Luc, 16-1 Coome HU, Super Italia, 20-1 Tim Gray Mm*, 

a 33-1 IlUfign, 50-1 Go Babfic 

'» «■ Stanley: M See More Bustoecs, 7-2 Teeton IHl Imperial Cad. 5-1 Simply DreMng.7-1 Estate- 

1= - ( figue, 14-1 Chftenger Du Luc, 16-1 Super Tactics, 29-1 Coome HR, 33-1 Mu&gan, 66-1 Go , 


.,r. 


Lingfield 






HYPERION 

12.40 Night City 2.40 Thats Life 

1.10 Priors Moor 3.10 G1NNER MORRIS (nap) 

1.40 Prince Consort 3.40 Kimono 

2.10 Ranaan (nb) 

GOING: Standard. 

STALLS: 5f - outside: remainder - nsidB. DRAW ADVANTAGE Low best ip to 7t 

■ Left-hand, sharp tro*. Bjuitn** surface. _. .. . 

i fAjB Course is SE of town on B202a UngfMd station (served by London, Victoria} aborts 
9coursa. ADMISSION.' Out) CO, Fsmly .EricloBunB CVL CAR miUC Club E3; rest free. 

■ LEADING TRAINERS: G L Moore 03 whs from 7B nmere (0*1 II Jolwitaon B4-aoa 
(17516). R Hannon 52-411 (127%). Lord Huntingdon 50-345 (2WW. 

■ LEADING JOCKEYS; J Weaver S3 wins ftom 397 rides (209%), A Clark 79-660 (RB%). 
L Dettori 77-334 (23.1%), R Cochrane 69400 (173%) 

■ FAVOURITES: 751 wins from 2J55 races (success rata 333%). 

BUNKERED FIRST TtME Kayo Gee 114% Cottage Blue Msarod, m 

LONG DISTANCE TRAVELLERS: Shonttani (UP) & Lady CarnUnn (2JD) sen! 270 mies. 

lio Afl\ CHRISTMAS APPRENTICE HANDICAP (CLASS G) 
I'^^l £2,500 added 1m 5f Penalty Value £1,737 

1 ocrrci MGHT OTY (14) (CD) (Ngd Stwfcb} K Burte 7 07 PD»6 

2 666323 OPHtA OJFF (14) (CD) (DorOesfcr teng) Mss G Kefcway 7 1) 0 P Goode (3) 5 

3 028211 WAASff (10) (CD) (Seierfh Heswn FShpj Mas G Kalaway 5 S 7_P Fredoricta (3) 1 

4 221306 NOUKAM(B) (Mrs LAVWxkcr) P Ewns5fl 6 CCo0«P)3 

5 055850 M5WYPRWCE(jqpF) (JJVmaterlPHBdBeiaa* Jl Pol 2 

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- -v? -Sdectarod- 

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BETTING: 7-4 MhaseL 92 MgM City; 7-8 Opera Bufl, 7-1 Noutari, 19-1 Merry Prince, 20-1 bm On 

The Rarii 

S97- NgN Cay 6 9 7 P Doe P) 2-1 tav (K Burie] dawn (fl 8 ran 

FORM GUIDE 

Night City: Front-runner, usshi sort in ctamere and recorded he 2)01 w*i of the )*or 
hme flm4f) Bis month. However, is worse oft with Opera Buff (3rd) for 6 lengths 
Opera Bufft Lteuafy held up and made lata headway whan 3rd to Mght City here last 
tena Has a Wb pul Ihoutfi is not easy to win with nowadays and has Qone w months 
without a success 

Weasel: Progressive son. defied a 9*> Nta in the weights when taking on by a 
r* here over this trip last tme. Only 2b higher and could casly con^lete a hm-trick 
Noukari: Landed Ms first success last month in an amamura' handcap at Southmei 
ftn4fl, though Is on a Sb higher mark. Did not enjoy tho best of mm last trna but 
tackles this surface far the first time 

Many Prince; Maiden handcappar far MchoN Jbrvis aid add ctf at his yenj lor lTDOOgns 
m Odobet Unplaced over hudes at Wanwcti on Satudey and makes no appeal 
lim On The Raric Malden who has not tun on ihe FU since May, but put up a Wr ef- 
tart on hs hurOrg debut when 4lh at Fontwl in September. Has yet to show he stays 
this tap 

VERDICTS Night CBy won this last season and K is a measure of the improvement he 
has made that ha is now higher in the handcap. Ha may wb! confirm his supe- 
’ rlority over Opera Buff dospilo being t*j woao afl tar six longtaa but w4 find (t hard- 
er Id gm hw stone to the tetters stabiemata, WAASS 1 . Ha was always tracing wed 
when succcassM ovsr thb trip here ten days ago and Hie handcappar may not haw 
caught up with hwi yet. 

fT mi EASAL HANDICAP (CLASS E) (DIV I) £3,7S0 added 

I '■ lw l 1m 2f Penalty Value £2^09 

1 02343 MAZES) (6)0390*5 LA IMntfeo)PE«ns 5 00 .C Cogsn (7) 14 V 

2 504222 ELHABlffl (34) JBf) (P 6 A SsaffiSU) Mss G Kdemy 3 6 it P Fredaricks (7) 9 

3 341225 BANK HM (27) (BF) (Afcr Hxoe Partia^p) G L ktaore 3 9 O J(h*n12 

4 006603 fl- DEST1NO (12) (C) (Shylne Racing Ltd) P M6dn 3 93 ACbrk7 

5 053605 SHLETTE(IG) (Ms Judy Mhaiop) □ h^idn Jones 494 SRUeOrthlO 

6 SXJOO SHONTADC (12) (C)(Faf Oan) M Jchnekjn 3 9 3 R FfaMrtafc p) 11 

7 000000 coutes. (Mas NFTtesiaBriO Chapman 3 an ACul»i 

B 400D PRKMSMOOR(12)fl*sLAtaanajr)RArmstong3B8 RPria3 

9 650230 TAfflADALE pO (Ashley ter Ractig) C Boob 4 B 2. — F Norton 13 

» fXV60- GOLDEN FAWN (JIB) psKtarase Stvans Ptt^)) M Haynes 5 6 1 J LOWS 8 

ti 230500 SAN GLAMORE MELODY (FR) (83 {94flRac*nj Hhpam47G .GBanMlB 

12 90066 PIPPA8 PRIDE (2fl |Mrs A WSrteia) M FabaskivGodBy 3 7 tl P Doe (5) 5 

X3 90000 W0ffiJERBOYfi2)f0cmeRaengL»l)JRPa*cn47O fl Brtsland (7) 4 

M 430000 ICSDRAMIO (28) (TR Pryte) K Ltogan 6 7 0 APdB (5)2 V 

-14 dsdered- 

MMwnum ewgft 7a TOh Ton handtap wu«rr: Wond&txy W 8», Uazzomrio 7et 7H 
BHTTBiG: 3-1 Mazeed. 92 Btabub, 11-2 H Deeflno, 192 Bank On «m, 7-1 Ttarsdnle, 10-1 Sboe- 
tadnt 12-1 SsOeU. Priors Maw 191 oflwn 
■Tj9? Qasslc Find 4 T)0M Fenton 6-1 (Pat MEhsI) dawn E) 14 rsn 

FORM GUIDE 

Massed: Was hawng he first race since August when 3rd at WdwrhampQn last time. 
Showed he Kts on this surface when wtnrtng over C/D In January, but boks too high 
in the handicap 

Shabuta: StiD a maiden and finished 2nd tar the 3rd time in 4 outings since Joining 
Gay KeSaway . Has a bright chance with Pad Frederwks claiming 7b 
Bre*OnHlireFtatwndcapper,betioiwittssasfar»ban1ijrtbutputupabta»HMr 
effort here last *ne whan 5th » Frst Mbster Fkna off same marie and dhas preferred 

II Destine: Carrw back to form when reluming to his beet dstance wtwi 3rd hare 
over tfta urn last fima Has been raised lb and kicks to haw a sBfter task 
Seflette: hconatetent hendcapper. maiden wmner jest awaorv hr! has been Quid form 
Hard ta fancy on what she has shown n her last 3 ajUnga ncfcidng cn Bis aa face^ 
Shontafcie: Has shown nothng In 4 outing atace raiumingfmm an 8-morth tay-on. 
Fv^hed berwid 8 Destlno (3rd) whan 12th of 13 here last tma 

CoreieetMaaerhmdcapperwhoshavInghteliretoufingskiceOctobarwhenmak- 

m r» ahpw at Southwei Has been dropped Sb. but this looks too compeMwe 
Prioni Moor nfaapp ni i n ing first effort on the AW here thbimM^lh whan tOthottl be- 
twxl FWfi. Howaiwt ha wae haimg Hs Rrat exiting since Sepfambar and hes been dopped 

^r ^^uLIS ^OTTls^W^ut when 3rd here test ™ithftw 1 b tgh g 
S^SngS« SSSb to form on hr! Good chance If he alecre to make the 

£££ Rram: Has not run on ^ 

iffln on his tvadEng debut this month. .Smto hawf id 1 W« i and trtaaa no apped 






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9»w actay cm »« AW whan 3n3 at VWvtshamptah in July Is 5b loww here but seems 

Wenderboy: No show r 5 outings on tirfand on themVCOTi®rara« seem insuB 

i£^S?5Mqupped with the veu w»« on turf and ouWde chan« as stable 
IN form over junpa . , , , ■ , nri 

VERDICT AtailywdMP® 1 


The grey's trainer, Venetia 
Williams, said yesterday; “Tee- 
ton Mill is fine and ready for 
Kempton and, within reason, 
won't mind what the ground is. 

"He was impressive at New- 
bury, butl don’t know if he's im- 
proving because he won on the 
bridle at Wincanton [on his 
previous outing] and was equal- 
ly impressive that day." 

Irri p p ri**! Call hflS been grvftn 

the go-ahead for the Kempton 
race in an attempt to end Ire- 
land’s long lean spell in the 
£100,000 prize. The last Irish- 
trained horse to lift the race was 
Captain Christy, the winner in 
1974 and 1975. 

Raymond Hurley, trainer of 
the 1996 Cheltenham Gold Cup 
winner, said that the nine-year- 
old will fly over from Cork on 
Christmas Eve. 

“The going at Kempton is 
soft I understand," Hurley said 
“And this suits us. I would only 
change my mind it for some 
reason, the ground dried out 
but this is unlikely." 

Not so unlikely, perhaps, as 
yesterday the official bulletin 
from Kempton was that the 
ground was good to soft, good 
in places. With some fierce 
winds blasting South East Eng- 
land, there is every chance 
that the track could dry out fur- 
ther, which would make Leop- 
ards town's Ericsson Chase a 
week today an enticing alter- 
native. Hurley stiQ hopes to sign 
up either Richard Dunwoocfy or 
Tony McCoy for the ride. 

Super Tactics, who has won 
five times at the course in- 
cluding a fine victory in last sea- 
son’s Racing Post Chase, is 
reported to be in fine form for 
the stifiest task of his career so 
far. Last year's winning jockey 
with See More Business. An- 
drew Thornton, takes the ride. 






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Real talent: Get Real clears the^ Ascot on Saturday on the way to success in the Frogmore Chase 


Edmondson on 
track with Express 


RICHARD EDMONDSON, the racing correspondent of the 
Independent strengthened his position at the top erf file 
Racing Post naps table for newspaper tipsters when Tor- 
duff Express won Saturday’s main event, the Bette rware 
Chase, at odds of 9-2. Princeful, at 11-4, completed a 
19.6-1 double for Edmondson in the day's other feature 
race at Ascot Edmondson's Saturday followers were re- 
warded with the 33-1 success of Alzoomo the previous 
week and the victory of Torduff Express hoists the profit 
to a £1 level stake on all his naps this season to £36.38. 


Injury misery for Murphy 


TIMMY MURPHY, who must 
suffer the frustration of his for- 
mer partner See More Busi- 
ness starting favourite for 
Boxing Day’s King George VI 
Chase under a new jockey, Joe 
Tizzard, is to take a week’s rest 
from riding after sufferings foil 
at lingfield on Friday. 

Murphy and his mount Eu- 
robond, were out of contention 
in a novice hurdle when taking 
a crashing M at the second-last 
flight “Pm just feeling a bit 
sore,” Murphy who has lost his 
position as principal rider for 


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BETTING: 94 Prince Consort 11-4 Wn Offett. 7-2 Barr Beacon, 5-1 Kayo Gee, 14-1 RkkOa, 16-1 

CMeMheBatcft, 20-1 Kenstonn Girl 

1997: Tangctrc Flyer B ti P Roberts (3) 7-2 (J S«Ty) drawn (8) 8 ran 

FORM GUIDE 

Boit Beacon: Retuned tarn a near 6-monib beak when 6iti on h* fW debut at Wfctoer- 
haropfcn (3fi fast month vwtti Caehtheb a te h w BtftLtaly ta rryrone »Ah mow experience 
CatcMtabtactc Msaed the break wtien ahuays beHnri on tis AiN bebut Bt INokief- 
hampion lost month Hard to fency on thta ettorl 

Prince Consort: Form arty trahed by Lynda Ramsden, he males his AW debut after 
showing a into abity on turi. Dropped n class and bfnkered for the firet time when 
2nd n a darrw at FoNastone on hs last outng in September 
Into Orbit: Unraced Safawan f*y and a haikeister to useful sprntar Tppat Boy 
Kayo Gem Drops back in trip after tnrahng unplaced war Of and 7f here. Btakered 
firet tme Showed annuli on detxjt to suggest ahak capable of wtanhg a modesf event 
Karakwm GAt Seems of Itte account and has beaten only 3 horses h 3 autktgs on 
turi Oops back In trta after nming aver 6f end 7Y . ' . 

Riddle: Never reached the leaders when ur^Aaced behind Seren Teg to a obmer(6f) 
here on Saturday Some promise on tirf debut, but hasfelad to progress 
VERDK7R Prfrwe Consort b again equipped with the bHrars tha brought about an 
improrad performance ta Fatastone In September. Hovraver, he has not ran stooe then 
and a laitssted on this sulace in pubic. KAYO GEE, bfetered tar tae first tame here, 
caught Ihe eya imdor a tender ntroducbon ta Fblnastone to Octabec 

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hTrimun wx vytiL 7 st fOb True tewfleap weg/r Oomond Geeer 7a 9#), Compter? Atfa 7W 71b. 
BETTING: 92 Ranaan, 5-1 POBy KOs. Just Wte, 11-2 AatrelsBi, 6-1 Cottage Bfeie, Lady Carofine, 
10-1 Prince Prospers, 12-1 other* 

£07- She Shadow 81 T WSams 7-1 (R Hannon) *awr fl) 10 ran 

FORM GUIDE 

Astraten; Suited by soft ground on turi he makes his AW debut. Won a Catierick 
maiden ewer the tap to October and Kioto to heve plenty to do in his first misery 
Prince Prospect: Placed 4 times from 6 outings on hrf horn Jeremy Nosadas yard 
before being sold for lOOOOgns. Has prospects d he acts on this surface 
Potty MBAs: to fine form on the UN, Owugh is on an Ota higher mark than when van- 
ning at SouthHBl (5Q last month Finished End ta Barthofomew here over this tnp fast 
month and meets Just Wz (3>d) on 9t> worse terms tor a nk 
Ranaan: Made an tmpreostve debut wnen winning whh much more n hand than 
the official 2 length venSct vreid suggest at Woherhamptan ^f) last manta. 

Colege Blue: Was havng her firet race since June when 5ta ta Xsyma here (80 tab 
monta wilh My Ms to 2nd and Just VWzz 4ta Looks held by the nn»up at the weights 
Lady Carofine: Waatoned if out when 10 length 2nd to Flying Officer here f6Q test 
tma A ine through the winner suggests she has mte chance sgama Ranaan 
Just Wte Rated after oemg outpaced a haltway to firesh 4th to Xsyma aver ihe tap 
here test time, but is orfy lb belter off for )ud over a length with runner-up PoOy Ms 
Diamond Geezer: Did not appear » stay Yn when unplaced on he AW debut here 
test tima Won a a darner at Sandown «i September: so should be suited by tap 
Camplan Afeka: Olsappoinitog maiden: (tapped Irto seing company when 2nd et Good- 
wood to August Od not seem to ad oi the AW when last oM3 ta Southwel n October 
VERDICT! It is hard to look beyond RANAAN. Mck Chamorft cedt overcame a poor 
ttrer when a co r nlula bte wimer at Wofverhampion test month RunneMto Ryfng Officer 
wot here a fortnkjit ego and Ftenaarfs tert tarn suggests has a cut above these ikate 

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3 305004 APOIXO RS3(^ (CD) (ALtoor^ GL Uoore906 Candy Uonfs 3 

4 000101 SPEHJY CLASSIC (27) (CD) ^outa WMes 9nteB) M Heaton-Bte 9 98 — A Ctefi B 

5 080091 RUZEN04] (0) (Five Fbkw) B Rafirig 3 9 3 GFadkner P)9 

G 02tH6 SOAKED (OD) (D Chapman) D Chapman 5 91 ACu»ianei4 

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BETTING: 5-1 SRital. 11-2 Than Life, B-i Acte, 7-1 array Prince, B-1 Prime Lara. Soaked, 9-1 
JuwwL 11-1 Rusen, 12-1 Krystal Mar, 14-1 Zlggy Danes, 29-1 ApoBo Rad, 33-1 oltare 
W: Ns conaspondng race 

FORM GUIDE 

mmoLarc EncouT^retentaa^weatharwheri ttn'Abngta by NamoreMrMa&jy 
at Whampton (7f heap), but 4ta higher now and yta to prme htonseif on tab sutace 
Bold Efitorb Winner at Kempton (01) anti Sandown (5fl to the summer but ou» of sorts 
recently and wd hald by Prfrno Lara ori latest Whamptan (71) naming 
ApoBo Red: Goes wel here bui high to the weights these days and besten 5 lengths 
whan 4th of 8 to Nomore Mr Nceguy (M) fcfcwng 75 Klay lay-off 
Speedy Oaaale: Cause specteisL to far form tanrty but made hard worti of beabng 
Saent Price 2 fengtas n lm cfataer here tatem and weighted up to best. 

Risen: Eariy^eteon Wkxtsor and LaicasterBf winner. Back to tarm when I'/.tengtfi 
4ta of is to Soaked on Byteadk debul pf) last monta StnJd be to the hrrt 
Soaked: Stlta good form but 5ta higher taan when beating Bw^ Prince 1 tength 
over C/D last monta Front-runner who wl not be helped by widest draw 
SfiisB: Tltea C/D wimet Ftarsed Sta te iasst WYiampun win but only just caught by 
Mde Ot Smctni <mr Si taere latest and should be major prays from tow draw 
Kiytaaf Max: Sbr-tima course winrw. tetes tram 2ta lower over 51 In March Rattiring 
to farm when 2 lengths 3rd to Royal Cascade at WhamptantW Samar) ta« month 
Juwwi: Wimar from 71i lower over 5f here to Apr! bur starttog stowty ttaaly and too much 

to do When 'h lengta 3rd a Pnde Of Braden at WTampton (Sf app heap) test week 
AoUk Uodettae on turf but wel backed when making afl to beat Maas 6 tengflte on 
Equtrack debut (Bf maiden) test month Open to tmprowment but plenty to do 
ThateUteknprasEMEq^tr^dabtawhansiaytoaOT 1 7 j len g th 3rd to Soaked orwr CJD 
test nOTta 2ta higher now but shood tew. though tr(p paestty on sharp side agato 
Zlggy - * Dancer Has won hare, atthot^h besi on Urt FarS 1 /: tongth3rt to 0*5 VEn- 
trre at Whampton (ffl heap) last month but (JWficult to wto with thase days 
El kray Prince: to form of his We and wrta good CIO 2nd to Sooted and 1 'h tengta 
2nd to Pride Of Brbcton ta Whampton (fif heap)- Every chance despite 21b rise 
Sdtesor fbdge: Bettv on ta® sulace then tul but on a hefty losing rut and Bely to 
need the outng after near 0 week absence 


VERDICT: An extremely tough contest with the old hands Soaked, SIHAF1, Ruzen 
and Krystal Max up agairst the tavand-commg Aalto. Thata LUb and Bhny Mice. 
After hte good effort on the F%resand ta Wbiverhampton, it may be worth giving a an- 
other chance to the record-9eeking Stoafi, who Is dearly back to hb bast and proba- 
bly even better m tan arfaca The inside stal shotad help he young rider keep htn 
covered up tor a fate on 

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9 000030 BARR® RIDGE (12) (BF) (XtesCA Hadnldga G L Moos 4 8 1 J Faming 7 

V 043(42 GHBBt MORRIS (2) (Ms M Rogas) C Booti 3 7 13 JQutonll 

n -31420 MBHOftTS MUSIC (2d) (C) (Ms J Phfips+M) M Uadgwck 6 7 12 J Lowe 12 

■e 400043 WILD NETTIE (14) (MS J A Chary) JFtk 4 7 11 Decian O’Shea 6 

Q 13WIS SAMTTS SHUFBJe (52) (D) (Ms G M Tfemrwman) R U Rowa 3 7 10.N Carfcto 4 B 
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Mtorm nr 7a 10ft. True fi'cap weijte: WSrf Neste 7sf8ta Sammy’s ShufBe 7sr Sb, Faftenberp rate. 
BETTING: 11-4 Gtnner Manic, 92 Brtrentog.7-1 WBd NaHa. 91 Dick Tlupln. 191 Acton VMo, 
Rtanbaw Rain, Sihrer Groom, 191 Memorya Music, Saramyh Shuffle. 14-1 othan 
M97:seeDMHanl 

FORM GUIDE 

Aston VBte: Unplaced over tudtes since 6 tangtas 4th to Key Academy to poor ton3f 
Bata maiden n Septembm. Yfet to race on aAvmatfw end dfficuft to assess 
Dick Unpin: Eaqr winner of madan over C/D to February. Sidelined since betow- 
tarm 8th of 8 to Brfflant Red over CfD a tortreght tetet Probably best uaktaed 
Rainbmv Rake Front nmner who teided a gmnbte over 7f here n August Reared ta 
state when am ot 13 to Byzantium over CVD last time Yta b prwe he gets beyond ta 
and toote a doitotfii oayer 

Browning: Rurmeroip to poor mafcten orer C/D to Apr! Sdsfined stoce neck win over 
Ffytog Bold at Wtodaor (im3f Hcsr firm) n August Market move wouid be significant, 
but probably best watched 

Double Ffighfc Formerly fair t2f hendcapper far Mark Johnston but urracad on Flat 
tar 15 months. PuDed up recent starts owr hutSas and hard to fancy on AW debut 
Tribal Peace: C7D wrrer 23 months ago end a Goodwood to 1997 bur on a long 
tostog rui and showing Itbe sign of revival 

SRver Groom: One-time useful tn2f handfcapper Without FU wn tor 2 years, but 
fair 2nd at SaSsbory to August and placed ewer hurdtes smea Lack of AW experience 
Is a concern and others preferred 

Noble Hero: Moderate midde-dstance maiden tor John Sheehan last year Frtaoul- 
tog since 43 lengths of 8 to Darwhrrte at Southnel (knot mdi) in February 
Bonier Ridge: Useful Bf performer far Henry Ceci n B97. Beta form stoce when 2 
tenths 3rd to Speedy Qassic in toi ctekner here test monta Plenty to do 
GbmerMonta: knpnwtog maiden who has taken wel to afl^treataer. Made most from 
halfway to dose home when 2 lengths 2nd to Castle Burning over CVD on Saturday. 
Every chance n a sighify weaker race 

Memorya Music: PossfcNty on easy VrvU stater win here to January from 6 lb tow 
and recent mpmed Brighton tul effort ShcxM team latest crxrse rumtog behind 
WBd NetUa Improving and wi appreciate erdra 2f after trip after VA length 3rd oM2 
to Raspberry Sauce to m fifess heap here, but no easy task from 4b higher 
Sammy's Shuffle: Reasonably wetted on Improved Brighton tn2f handcap wn n 
September but yta show he b) same farce on tahweatner and absent 8 weeks 
Falranbonj: Has nor shown mich stoce teswing Mark Johnston to sptug and needs 
to impKwe on tesest 12 tengths Sta of 14 to Sand Cay n stater over G/D 

VERDICT: Little recent farm to go on, and the reproved effort of GINNER MOR- 
RIS over course and distance on Saturday mates him an automatic chorea He has 
taken to the sand Bis duck to water and gets the vote over Memory’s Music, who 
has proved Wmstaf on Equitreck and would be vwal n if he could transfer recarti turf 
knprowrmert to the sand. 

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BETnuG: 542 Kimono, 11-4 R o k BI W A 91 La Putts Hamedw, 7-1 Social Round, 191 Sentono. 
SBota Pride, 12-1 Mrartab, PifemnU, 191 others 
<997. Wttifindar 5 9 0 S Whtwxth 3-1 (Ms L Sttata) ckawn (4) tt ran 
FORM GUIDE 

FUegtan: Slowed Bttie tor Roger Chariton and no evtdero toprevement when to lengths 
9h at 18 ia Thateks ta Warwick (lm mdn, good) tor new yard. AAN dtaxit 
Imperator: Moderate form to handeaps and marSero tar Lady Herrisa No sign of m- 
provement when B tengths 8th of 12 to Meadow Leader In 7T sder here on AW debut 
Havrimb: Ughdy raced, but plenty to find an 17 length) 5th af 8 to Tunbteweed Hero 
to *n maiden here test monta 

Primordial: Respectable to tengths Sta of 9 » Aotle in 6f muden here last month on 
first outing tar a year but et 2 has plenty to prove 

Rtanatonn: Ey-John Goeden Improved form for new yard when, with winner 21 out, 
btn 3 tengths by TUmblemeed Heroin im maiden here lata monta Go dose 
Sabre Btat Only piaitog class on BrlALvreatiier debut and first outing stoce 21 lengths 
10th of B to Chafes Bride ta Cw*ste (71 good to soft) n August Utile appeal 
SanbMies Some abtty to Wbrwlck 1m maiden n May but 40 tangtas test of G to Byzen- 
tunfa Im2fhcap on a9weather debut toSmring toy-aft Herd to fancy 
Social Round: E*-£d Duntop QeduHly findng his fata and m on wet from slow start 
when 7 tengths 3rd of B m Actte ewer Bf hare lata ttoia Open io improvement 
Rite* Faied to MS early promise and beaten 21 lengths n Brighton tn 2 f stder on 
test start Dttfioit u fancy on afrwetaher debut 

Kfinono; Outetly backed end early speed when 9 tengths 7th of « to Catch The Drag- 
on at Goman Park (7T mda good to soft) In October on arty start far Jim Boigar h 
Ireland Rom yard wtti erccelent Strike-rate and fataresting caitadate an AfW debut 
La Ptatte Hanwcfta: Raced ova Bon turf hare to July. Promisin g A/W debut when 
staying on 5 lengths 6th of 13 » Theatre Magic a! Soutisuan (Bf heap, fibrasand) and 
cotAd be in the hunt if she adapte to tala faster strtace 

Ma ri a na : Narrowly beaten by Mona to Newcaatte fan cfarmtag hmtteap In October 
bul has yta to show anytahg comparable on the aSrawtaer 
Oueen’e Hat Useful 3rd to Frank* Fair n Ftatestoie 7f heap tar Ben Hanfarey to July 
but ran body on a9weataer debut same month and has ainca ctnrtged ftarete 
Sfient Pride: Looks oriy ptatag-daaa on recent 4'/r-tength Sta at 12 to RrepbenySeuce 
n »n Hes' handcap here and has plenty to find 

VERDICli The fann piqk in a mak race is RMnstorm, who eoiid prove a good buy 
tar Chris Dwyer on the strength of hto rvnwig hare lata monta He should go dose, 
but preferences tar the recent Awrey Noaeda acqubMon KIMONO, who shrewd 
abity on her tosh debut. Nogada* record e persuasive and she wi certaMy be no 
stranger id the sand. Rotative markta signals should be worth fdowng 


Paul Nicholls's stable, said. 
“Here’s nothing broken but I 
bave hurt an old injury and I'm 
uncomfortable around my ribs 
and shoulders. I'm looking for- 
ward to corning back on Boxing 
Day." 

Kieren Fhllon continued his 
good run in Hong Kong on Sat- 
urday by landing a double at 
Sha Tin on Sar ‘Iburism and the 
well-named Grand Start Brit- 
ain’s champion has now ridden 
five winners in the territory 
since his three-month stint 
began at the start of December 

Record is 
threatened 


SOAKED AND Sihafi again at- 
tempt to become record-break- 
ers when lining up against 12 
opponents at Lingfield today. 
Last Wednesday at Wolver- 
hampton, Sihafi foiled in his at- 
tempt to land a record 10th 
handicap success of the year by 
only a short-head to Pride Of 
Brixton. with Soaked in sixth. 
With nine handicap wins each 
to their credit in 1998, they 
share the 20th-Century record 
with Chaplins Club, Glencroft 
Vindaloo and Star Rage. 


Michael Hills, another jock- 
ey on a three-month contract, 
was also among the winners 
aboard Always Cheerful in a 10- 
furiong handicap. This took mils 
on to the three-winner mark. 
■The all-weather card on Ling- 
field's Equitrack provides the 
only racing in Britain today as 
the meeting at Kelso has follen 
victim to frost “Unfortunately 
it's imraceable. particularly in 
the straight, and it’s already 
starting to freeze," the clerk of 
the course, Johnnie Penwicke- 
Clennell, said 


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ASCOT 

Gong: Good to Sort (Hurdtes Sort) 
1245: 1. KURAKKA (R DuiWOOdy) 7-2; 2. 
Strong Paladin «-l; 3 . Bttbtgsgata 3-1 
)t Eav 7 ran. 3-1 jt fav Country Beau 
(unseated rider)- 13. 2'/». (J Grftard, Fnd- 
on). Tote: £870; EZ30l £560. DFJCSDO 
CSF: £3!3a Nft No Retreffl. 

1.10: 1. GET REAL (MAFtawrakfl 2-1 tav; 
2. Cefibate 9-2; 3. Squire Sib 94. 5 ran. 
R 5. (N Hendersoa Lamboum) Tola: 
£270; E15Q £2.71 DF: CS1Q CSF: £862. 
1JMJ: 1. HIDEBOUND (M A Flugerald) 
100-30: 2. Renzo 5-1; X Setemato 9-4 fav. 
7 ran. 17, 1 (N Hendereon, Lamboum). 
TWo; £390; £260 E36Q DF:£1L7ll CSF: 
C179Q 

XI 5: 1. PRINCEFUL (R Dunwoody) fl-4 
fav; 2. Deano's Beano 7-2; X Ocean 
Hawk B-V 11 ran. 'h. 30. (Mrs J Pitman. 
Upper Lamboum) Tote: E3 l3<5; £T6Q. £160. 
£ 2 . 10 . DFX56Q CSF: £1083. Tnfeclfl: 
E8320 NR: Saver Wedge. Splendid Thyna 
2-50: 1. TORDUFF EXPRESS (N 
WttamGon) 9-2; X Cataxoe Bay 16 - 1 ; X 
King Lucifer 13- 2. 7 ran. ti-8 fav 
Tbmarindo (pulled up). B. 4. (P Mchote. 
Shapton MaHet). Tote: E&30; £220, £730 
DF:£S4B0 CSF: £S5SO 
X20: 1. TOTO TOSCATO (A Maguire) to- 
ll fav; X City Hafl 2-1; X MakoimA*-!. 4 
ran. 7s ta (D Mchotson, Temple Gutrigj. 
Tote: Ct«J DFXL80 CSF: £301. 

Jackpot: C2£94O0 

PlacepoC £37900 QuadpoC £SLBQ 

Place B: £23077. Place 5: £5189. 


LINGFIELD 

Gong: Standard 

11.60: 1. CASTLES BURNING (G Faittn- 
e0 4-1 ter, X G Inner Morris 9-1: X Con- 
frooter 9-2 14 ran. X Vv fC Cy2Sfl. Tote: 
£670; naO £200 £200. DF: £65.10 CSF: 
£3332. Tricast £16441 
1X20: 1. SEHEN TEG (G Faufcneri 8-n fav; 
X Cantgetyourbreath 5-f; X Maglque 
EtaHeS-t 12 ran. Y-. 'k (B Painty "fate: £170 
CU0 £140 £160 DF: £300 C#: £336 
1XSO: 1. DAUNTED (Dene ONei) 94; X 
Sknpty Magical M-i; 3. Oo Ee Be 7-1 6 
ran. C-tt tav Flying Officer (4tti). Sh-nd. 
4 (G L Moore). Tote: £2.70 £120 £3.70. DF. 
£1470 CSF: £2860 After a stewards' 
nquiry, the first and second places were 
reversed. 

1.20: 1. NOMORE MR NICEGUY (T 
Spraka) 3-1 ; X Italian Sy mp hony 15-2; X 
Danzfcto 3-1 8 ran. 7-4 fav Unreal City. 5. 
sh-hd. (E Alston) TUe: £330; £360 £150 
£150 DF; C14ta CSF: £2531 
150: 1. TEAR WHITE (S Whrtworta) 6-1; 
X Friendly Brava 14-1; XAJnad 4-1 ft tav 
10 ran. 4-1 tt fav Tom Tim. Vs 'A- (T Mis; 
Tot*: £830; £150 £330 £LSO DF: £4740 
CSF: £8550 "iHcasc £35916 
2.25: 1 . PROSPECTOR'S COVE (R Price) 
91; X Halt Tide tt-1:3. Critical Air 4-t 
13 ran. 92 tav Jublee Scholar. 1 •/-, 27>. (J 
Pearoe) Tbie: £430; £ 2.10 £440 CtPQ OF: 
£7520 CSF: £7200 Tncasf. £2SXta Ml: 
Noble Haro. 

255: 1. BOLD ORIENTAL (A dark) 20-1; 
X Incepta 191; X Beguile 7-4 fav. 12 ran. 
■A. hd (J Hasi Hole: CWBO: £230 £7.10 
£150 DF: £10390 CSF: £30405 Tncast: 
£78740 

355: 1. SMART KID (W Ryan] 3-1 fav. X 
Rotate Splendour n-2: X Castle Ashby 
Jack 20-i 12 ran. 27i, hcL (Mas G KeUe- 
wayl Tote: £340: £230 £2.50. DF: £1040 
CSF: £1855 Tricast: £27457. 

Plocepot: £6030. Quadpot £2110 
Place 6: £8410 Place 5: £47.77 


Gang: Soft 

1X30 1.4UNGUUA McCarthy) fl- O fav, 
X Afon Atwen 4-1; X Capsoff 25-1 9 ran 
DistttSt (P Webber, BanburyL Tote: £150; 
Cm Cm £250 DF:£3«. CSF: CX7X 


1.00: 1. OPTIMISTIC CHRIS |T Etoy) 7-1: 
X The Robe 91; 3. Helenes HIB 5-2 fav. 
16 ran. Sri-rid. 1 |A Streeter, Urtoxeteri 
Tote: £800; £220. E2£0. El 40 OF: CS050 
CSF: £6097. 

1 J 5: 1. NATIVE BUCK (R WeWeyi 7-1 : X 
Pennyafwl KM: 3. Bowles Petrol 6-1 15 
ran. 94 fav Nortanfc (5th). 1 Vk (M W»on- 
son Banbury). Tote: £330. £200. EX50 
£250 DF; £3000 CSF: £6530 Tntast 
£4T73i WL ArenT We Lucky. 

X1(fc 1. NIPPER REED (A Thornton) 9-1. 
X Hah Express 7-2; X Distent Echo iL 
8 ran. 94 tav Susum Corda (5ta) 3, ta 
(R Simp&on. Fcotvl) Tote: £300: £210 
£220 CF: £1530 CSF: £35.45: 

240: 1. ZAGGY LANE (S Bumoughl 5-1 for. 
X Hawaiian Youth l2-T;3.DwvaJH8 tal 
13 ran. 5, 3'fc. (P Rodtord. Martockl Tote: 
£650. £290 £410 £450 DF. E63.B CSF: 
£5345 Tncasu E81014 
X10: 1. FOHTYTWO DEE (W Marecn) «-l; 
X Trie Bargeman 13 -X X TeBapcaky 25-1 10 
im 94 tav Rich Tycocn (4th). 4 IA Car- 

rot Worcester) Tbte: £2310 £430 tlSC £320 
OF: £5000 CSF: £925a Tncasf £206399 
3.40: 1. PEAUNGS (J Tczard) 20-1. 2. 
Polar Prospect 7-2; X Harlequin Chorus 
7-1 7 ran. 9-4 tav Tauten Boy (5th) 1V-, 
1'/». (G Hubbard, Woodbndge). Tote: 
£1530: G460 £330 DF: £Tt30 CSF: £7559 
Place pot £94420 OuadpoL £2n80 
Place a- £673.73 Place 5: £56399 


WARWICK 

Going: Good to Soft 

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Ti-X X Rynwply 50- 1 . X Bidder Boy 25- 1 : 
4.StonnMIStag3-itai t7 ran. a A <F Mur- 
phy! Tbte: £590; £240 £320, £2tx £120 DF- 
£16230 CSF: £23403 Tnc3SC £559690 
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4; X HilteRlOfid 11-4: x New Leaf 5-2 fav. 
8 ran. ta ta (R Dfctanl Ttala: £330; nio. 
£140 £140 DF: £4.70 CSF: CaSX 
125: 1. WIND ROSS (R Johnson! 2-1 tav, 
X Wtoksdlmp 16-7. 3. Indian Tracker 5 
1 20 ran. 4. & (D Nktaobon). Tote: £340: 
£150 £390 £390 DF: T47.40 CSF: £3143 
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Miss Fare 3-1; X Croker ti-4 fav 19 ran. 
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Monday 21 December 1998 



Ball displays 


strength of 


‘dying breed’ 


“SEX & CHOCOLATE for a 
quid!'’ came the exhortation 
outside St Andrew’s. It turned 
out to be a famin e sates pitch 
rather than a saucy solicitation, 
but if the ensuing struggle did 
little for the erogenous zones or 
sweet teeth, it certainly 
warmed 22,000 hearts. 

There are few occasions 
when the rival supporters, play- 
ers and managers share a glow 
of satisfaction after a goalless 
draw, yet this was on a Sun- 
derland maintained both their 
substantial lead in the First Di- 
vision and Britain's only un- 
beaten away record, while the 
way Birmingham tested their 
mettle confirmed them as play- 
off candidates at the very least 

If the home side had more of 
the match territorially, forcing 
ll corners to three, all but one 
of the better scoring opportu- 
nities belonged to Sunderland. 
The fluctuating nature of the 
contest was embodied by Gary 
Rowett the right-back Birm- 
ingham bought from Derby in 
August, who went from the 
ridiculous to the sublime in 
the space of three minutes in 
the dosing stages. 

Touted ty his manager, 
TYevor Francis, as worthy of 
Glenn Hoddle's consideration in 
a position where England have 
relatively limited options, 
Rowett found himself in the 
heart of Sunderland's six-yard 
area with the ball at his feet 
Swinging first with his left and 
then with his right, he failed to 
connect with either. 

Instead, he toppled over on 
to his backside as if struck by 
a sniper. Frands generously 
■suggested the ball might have 
stuck in the mud. Rowett re- 
freshingly willing to laugh at 
himself as he watched his aber- 
ration replayed on television, 
called it "just one of those 
things". 

The chance to mate amends 


FOOTBALL 


BY PHIL SHAW 


Birmingham City 
Sunderland 


came almost immediately. A su- 
perb pass by one of Sunder- 
land’s substitutes, Gavin 
McCann, enabled Daniele 
Dichio to flick the ball past the 
goalkeeper Kevin Poole. As it 
rolled towards the net Rowett 
materialised, a trifle noncha- 
lantly for the more highly 
strung Birmingham fans, to 
shepherd it to safely. 

The game's most influential 
performer went about his work 
in less dramatic fashion. Kevin 
Ball, Sunderland's captain and 
midfield anchor, won more 
tackles in an afternoon than 
many players mate in a season, 
prompting his coach, Adrian 
Heath, to hail him as “a true 
pro, one of a (lying breed”. 

Ball might not have chal- 
lenged for the ball with quite the 
same aggression had the ref- 
eree, Mark Halsey, not ne- 
glected to caution him for an 
early foul on Dele Adebola. 
That said, Mr Halsey seldom 
missed any indiscretion but 
waited for a judicious moment 
to have a discreet word with the 
culprit His approach allowed 
the match to build upa head of 
steam; only the excellence of 
the defences stopped it from 
reaching the boil. 

Sunderland would have to 
suffer the kind of collapse in 
which England's cricketers 
specialise to miss out on a Pre- 
miership return for the second 
season running. Up front the 
free-scoring Kevin Phillips is 
close to fitness after a three- 
month absence. At the back, 
bolstered by Niall Quinn's 
height at set-pieces, they have 
also kept six successive dean 
sheets. 


After just four defeats in 60 
League games, Peter Reid's 
assertion that his team were 
“"hard to beat” was a statement 
of what Basil Fawlty called 
“the Weedin' obvious”. The 
Sunderland manager admit- 
ted Rowetfs blunder was “a bit 
of luck” but he argued that it 
was well earned. “Trevor’s got 
a good side here,” he said. 
“It’s a hard place to get a 
result” 

Frands, who played along- 
side Reid for England and 
made him one of his first re- 
cruits as a manager with 
Queen's Park Rangers, was 
“not too unhappy" with one 
point “Sunderland are the out- 
standing in the division 
and will win the championship 
convincingly. But I don’t think 
we could have been any more 
positive.” 

However; when the mutual 
respect abated he may have re- 
flected on Birmingham’s failure 
to get behind the visitors’ full- 
backs; and on the patchy show- 
ing by his muscular forwards, 
Adebola and Paul FUriong, who 
punched their weight only spas- 
modically. 

Birmingham are a far more 
sophisticated side than the one 
bequeathed by Barry Fry. 
Churlish as it may sound so 
soon after their second seven- 
goal away win this year, at Ox- 
ford a week earlier, (he tey to 
whether they can end their 13- 
year exile from the top section 
could lie in Frands' capacity to 
coax greater menace from his 
attackers. 



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David Platt, in his new role as Sampdoria team supervisor looks on intently as his charges earn a late draw with Milan yesterday Empics 


Platt plays a watching game 


Birmingham City (4-4-2): Poole; 
Rowert. AWett. Johnson. Marsh (Was- 
sail. 86): McCarthy: O'Connor. Robinson. 
Ndlovu; Furlong. Adebola. Substitutes 
not used: Forster. Hughes. 
Sunderland (4-4-2): Sorensen; Makin. 
Mehnfie. Butter. Scotc Rae (VWIBams. 72). 
Ball. Clark. Gray (McCann. 72): Bridges. 
Quinn (DicWo, 79) 

Referee: Wl Halsey (Welvwyn Garden Clcy). 
Bookings: Sunderland: Rae. Butler. 
Man of the match: Ball. 

Attendance: 22.095 


AFTER ALL the controversy 
surrounding his appointment, 
David Platt was probably glad 
to be able to watch a football 
match yesterday. 

The former England in- 
ternational, who was asked to 
take on the challenge of resur- 
recting the fortunes of Samp- 
doria fast week, looked on from 
the stands at a rain-lashed Sta- 
dio Luigi Farads as the dub he 
used to play for held Milan to a 
2-2 draw. 

Sampdoria have been unable 
to call Platt their coach as he 
does not bold an Italian coach- 
ing certificate, so he has the title 
of team supervisor and his as- 
sistant, Giorgio Veneri, fa offi- 
cially the team’s coach. This 


ROUND-UP 


by Rupert Metcalf 


subterfuge was not enough to 
satisfy the Italian Football Fed- 
eration, hence Platt's banish- 
ment from the bench yesterday 

Platt, who will have been im- 
pressed by his team's fighting 
spirit was in radio contact with 
Veneri. “We had prepared this 
match so well that there was lit- 
tle to say about it” the 59- 
year-old veteran coach said. “I 
only spoke to him [Platt] twice.” 

For much of the first half, 
Milan threatened to run riot 
but the German striker Oliver 
Bierhoff 's failure to convert a 


series of chances meant the vis- 
itors only had a Leonardo goal 
to show for their domination. 

Francesco Palmieri levelled 
the scores early in the second 
half before Bierhoff finally 
found the target with a power- 
ful long-range header from 
Bruno N’Gotfy’s cross in the 
72nd minute. The Argentinian 
pfavmakex; Ariel Ortega, se- 
cured a vital point for Samp- 
doria with a curling free-kick in 
his first match back since sus- 
pension following a drunken 
driving incident in Genoa. 

The Japanese midfielder; 
Hidetoshi N'akata, kept his 
nerve to convert a penally five 
minutes into stoppage time as 
Perugia held the SerieA lead- 


ers, Fiorentina, to a 2-2 draw. 
Milan Rapajic put the home 
team ahead after just 20 sec- 
onds, but Anselmo Robbia ti's 
10th minute free-kick and 
Gabriel Batistuta’s 14th goal in 
14 matches put the leaders 2-1 
up going into injury time. 

Nakata's spot-kick, following 
a handball by Guillermo Amoi; 
was his seventh goal in his 
first season in Serie A. It al- 
lowed Parma to cut Florentina’s 
lead to three points with a 
thrillin g 5-3 victory at Empoli. 

In France, Bordeaux ended 
the year with a 6-0 thrashing of 
Metz on Saturday but Mar- 
seilles stayed top, three points 
dear of Bordeaux, with a 2-0 de- 
feat of Le Havre. 


Marseilles, beaten only once 
before the winter break, re- 
tained their lead thanks to two 
goals from Robert Pires either 
side of half-time, while Lilian 
Lasfandes scored a haWrick for 
Bordeaux. 

Paris St-Germain, who have * 
failed to score in their last five - 
matches, lost 2-0 at Lorient, for 
whom Patrice Loko scored 
twice against his former chib. 
Monaco, who lost 1-0 at home 
to Lyons, are expected to sack 
their coach, Jean Tigana, dur- 
ing the winter break. 

In Bangkok, Iran beat Ku- 
wait 2-0 to win the Asian Games 
football final. Peter Withe’s 
Thailand side lost 3-0 to China 
in the third-place play-off 


■m 



Walsall worthy of the big occasion Jefferies ponders 


ONE OF the persistent com- 
plaints against new grounds, 
particularly those belonging to 
clubs that do not regularly 
draw big crowds, is that they 
have no soul or atmosphere. 

The Bescot Stadium, Wal- 
sall's functional home for eight 
years, looks as much like a B&Q 
extension as any, but, as un- 
precedented numbers rallied 
there to watch the Saddlers in 
this Second Division promotion 
game, one thing it did not lack 
was a sense of occasion. 

Walsall and their neighbours 
from up the M6 approach a 
match hke this from opposite di- 
rections. Like their manager, 
Brian Little, Stoke have seen 
bigger days and grander 
stages. For Walsall, a few Cup 
adventures aside, this fa as 
good as it gets. 

Stote remain a big dub in hi- 
bernation; Walsall were excit- 
ed and delighted by a crowd of 
9,056 - a record for the dub at 
BescoL 

The hope expressed by their 
manager Ray Graydon, was 
that most of the newcomers 
would be back to boost the 


By Dave hadfield 


Walsall 
Stoke City 


club's modest average. “The 
fans would go away and say that 
was good entertainment," he 
said. “In fact if any of them 
aren't satisfied. I’ll give them 
some money out of my own 
pocket The players responded 
to what they got from the 
crowd.” 

Walsall certainly had the 
look of a side that gives value 
for money, working tirelessly 


and with no little skill to de- 
servedly edge out opposition 
who have far greater resources 
on tap. 

Graydon’s own investments 
have proved sound, particular- 
ly the enlistment of the strikers, 
Walter Otta and Andy RaxmndL 
The flair of the Argentinian 
has been a revelation in the 
Second Division, although Sat- 
urday was a day more for the 
direct approach of the former 
Barnsley man, who dived to 
head the winner and proved a 
handful throughout 

There is qualify elsewhere in 


the side, with Neil Pointon and 
Paul Simpson a pair of spright- 
ly veterans down the left flank. 

“We’ve got to make sure 
that we don't get carried away,” 
said Graydon, who played in the 
Aston Villa forward line along- 
side Little. “Stote put us under 
terrific pressure, played some 
good football and, if I were 
Brian, rd be disappointed not 
to come away from the match 
with something.” 

Stoke did indeed look a 
smooth and classy outfit, with no 
end of midfield craft at their dis- 
posal But their striking options 


Naylor provides Suffolk punch 


RICHARD NAYLOR grabbed a 
fate winner to earn Ipswich 
Town a deserved 2-1 victory at 
Sheffield United yesterday, 
after Paul Devlin looked to 
have salvaged a First Division 
point for Sheffield United with 
his first goal of the season. 

Naylor rose highest to reach 
Jamie Clapham's free-kick in 
the dying seconds to deliver an 
explosive finish to a poor game. 


The match seemed to be end- 
ing as a draw after Devlin had 
scored within three minutes of 
coming off the bench in the 74th 
minute. Adam Tanner failed to 
dear after Richard Wright had 
produced a stunning save to 
deny Andy Campbell’s dose- 
range volley, and Devlin was on 
hand to prod the ball home. 

A draw would have been 
harsh on George Burley’s men. 


who took the lead for the first 
time four minutes into the sec- 
ond hall Bobby Petta fired in a 
speculative shot from 25 yards 
which deflected off his team- 
mate, Kieron Dyer; into the 
path of Sam as si Abou, who 
calmly fired low past Alan Kelly 
for his first goal during his 
loan spell from west Ham. 

Ipswich are second, eight 
points behind Sunderland. 


were limited once the former 
Walsall man, Kyle Lightbourne, 
succumbed to the flu he had 
thought he could overcome. 

Little blamed himself for 
giving lightbourne the option 
of playing, but there was tittle 
in this defeat to suggest that 
Stote will not be there or there- 
abouts at the end of the season. 

As he said, the fact that their 
next match is against another 
promotion candidate - Preston 
- gives them the chance to get 
back on course without delay. 

Bescot has some way to go 
before it becomes a Theatre of 
Dreams, but the evidence fa 
that its team fa on the up. 

Graydon may have built and 
run it on the cheap, but the side 
might have enough to embar- 
rass a Stoke, or even a Fulham, 
at the end of the campaign. 

Goal: Rammefl (41). 

Stefaafl: (4-4-2): WMen Marsh. Green. Rop- 
er. Pointon; Wrack, Larusson. Keans. Simp- 
son: Ram mell. Otta (Brisseti. 86 ). 
Substitutes not mad: Gadsby. Porter. 
Seohe aty (5-3-2): Muggier on; Keen. 5lg- 
uttlsson. Robinson, Woods (Petty. 81). 
Small: OW field (Wallace, B1). Kavanagti. 


affairs of the Hearts 


Forsyth; Lightbourne (Crowe. 20). Thome, 
e: E Wotstenholine ( Black bum). 


Bookings: Wrisafr Wrack. Keates. Stoke: 
Woods. Robin 


binson. OklfieW 
Man of dm match: Pointon 
AtrewUnce: 9.056 


A HEART of Midlothian board 
meeting tonight will help to 
determine the future of Jim 
Jefferies as the Edinburgh 
dub’s manager 

Jefferies fa the main target 
for Aberdeen as they look to re- 
place Alex Miller as manager, 
a position the Hearts man 
might well be interested in if he 
does not hear good news from 
his board. 

Jefferies has had a bad week. 
The sale of the talented winger 
Nefl McCann, to Rangers was 
followed by a 3-2 home reverse 
at the hands of the Ibrox dub 
on Saturday with McCann play- 
ing for the final 10 minutes for 
his new employers. 

With his star player gone and 
his side 14 points behind 
Rangers, the leaders, Jefferies 
will look for assurances on the 
signing of new players to 
strengthen his squad, but with 
Hearts in the red to the tune of 
£ 2 m such assurances might 
not be forthcoming. 


SCOTTISH 

ROUND-UP 


by David McKinney 


Rangers’ victory was 
achieved with the help of two 
goals from Sfephane Gitivaic’h, 
their French striker while Hen- 
rik Larsson again displayed 
his sublime talents in scoring 
twice as Celtic beat Dunferm- 
line 5-0. The Swede also sup- 
plied the other three goals, 
which came from a Lubomir 
Moravdk double and another 
from Johan Mjallby. Larsson 
has already been a signing tar- 
get for Sheffield Wednesday, 
who might once again turn 
their attention towards Him if 
they sell Paolo Di Canio. 

Aberdeen recorded a second 
successive victory with a 2-1 win 
over Dundee, a result which 
strengthens the hand of Paul 
Hegarty their caretaker man- 
ager, who has suggested he 
would welcome the position on 


a permanent basis, while Marie 
Hateley, the former Rangers 
striker who recently finished a 
spell as manager of Hull Citfy : 
is thought to be one of the 
favourites for the vacancy at St 
Mirren. 

The First Division side 
sacked their manager Tony 
Fitzpatrick, last week and, 
along with Hateley, Sergei Bal- 
tacha, the former Inverness 
Caledonian manage r fa thought 
to be in the running, with the 
club expected to make an an- 
nouncement later this week. 

Hibernian continue to lead 
the First Division courtesy of a 
3-0 victory over Clydebank and 
again the most pleasing as-4- 
pect of Saturday's game will be*u 
an attendance dose to 10,000, 
giving an indication of the draw- 
ing power of the Edinburgh 
dub. Alex McLeish's side are 
now six points ahead of Falkirk, 
and with two home games over 
the festive period they are dear 
favourites for promotion. 







RUGBY UNION RESULTS 


ALLIED DUNBAR 
PREIHIER5HIP ONE 

Bath 11 Saracens — ..19 

Gloucester — ia Leicester 23 

London Irish.. 20 Harlequins 16 

L Scottish — 16 Richmond 28 


London Me [shl 1 
Orrefl Jt 


Rugby 


Newcastle 30 

W Hartlepool _B 
P n 

Leicester 1310 

Northampton 1 3 10 

Saracens 1 3 8 

Wasps 13 6 

Both 1 3 7 

Newcastle. .12 
Harlequins ..12 
Gloucester ..13 
Ric hm ond ....12 

L Irish 13 

Sale 13 

L Scottish . ..12 

Bedford 13 2 

W Hartlepool 1 3 I 


Sale , 


.15 


Northampton 33 
D L F APts 

3 397 236 20 

3 362 272 20 

4 410 283 18 

5 390 269 16 

6 342 264 14 
5 337 300 14 

5 321 310 14 

6 290 207 14 
5 327 326 14 

7 320 3 34 1 2 

8 307 380 lO 

9 214 310 6 

0 11 294 422 4 

0 12 192 510 2 


Rotherham .— 29 
PIN 

Bristol 1311 

Worcester.... 1 3 1 1 
Rotherham ..12 6 

Coventry 13 8 

L Welsh 13 8 

Waterloo ....13 a 

Exeter 13 

Leeds 13 

Orren 13 

Rugby 13 

Moseley ....13 
Wakefield. ..12 

P»*de 12 1 

Blackhead!.. 13 1 


— .23 
— 19 
APts 

2 398 182 22 
2 324 186 20 

4 281 14B 16 

5 341 263 16 
5 308 298 16 
5 236 252 16 

5 288 306 15 

6 301 167 14 

7 266 192 1 2 
7 209 258 12 


Worcester 
D L F 

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0 8 299 308 10 

011 216 403 4 

1 10 165 387 3 
0 12 146 400 2 


P W 

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Henley 1412 

Otley 14 9 

Reading _.14 8 

Lydaey 14 8 

Camberiey.... 1 4 7 
Rosslyn Par hi 3 7 

B'bam/Sol 14 6 

Wharfedale..14 6 

Newbury 14 6 

Nottingham . 1 3 5 
Harroga t e ....14 4 

Worley. 13 4 

L’pool St H ..13 1 


L P 

2 410 
2 343 

5 262 

6 315 
6 273 
6 298 
6 281 
8 281 
8 232 
8 22T 

8 245 

9 160 
9 205 


0 12 1SS 


APIs 

201 24 
165 24 
212 18 
285 16 
256 16 
354 15 
217 14 
260 12 
233 12 
236 1 2 
252 10 
254 9 
313 8 
443 2 


Redruth . 
Hi bard 


22 Barking 

-24 Chiton 


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W est on s Mare 5 N Watsbam 13 


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Currie. 


PREMIERSHIP TWO 

Black beach 24 Fylde 17 

Bristol 36 Waterloo 8 


Coventry 
Leeds 


.21 

..38 


Moseley M 

Wakefield 0 


JEWSON NATIONAL 
LEAGUE ONE 
Camberiey — 28 BTiam/SotHniniO 

Healey IB Rosslyn Park 15 

Lydaey 10 Otley 3 

Manchester -27 Harrogate O 

Money 14 Reading 17 


TWO NORTH 

Hhtckley 9 Preston G 20 

Kendal , — 7 Stourbridge _20 

Lichfield — 7 Nuneaton 25 

Sandal A7 Wbmlwtoa Phi 7 

Sodaley Perk 24 WatnlfZ. .11 

Atffldd — ..16 Aspatrla 13 

Whitchurch — 19 Now Brighton 26 


TENNENT'S VELVET 
PREMIERSHIP 
FIRST DIVISION 
Boroughmalr 33 Glasgow Hks 18 

Hamfcft 25 

Hor1ofs FP -32 
Stirling Cty -10 

WorScot 34 

P w 

HerioTs PP..12 10 

Melrose 12 8 

Glasgow Hksl I 8 

Currie 10 8 

Hawick ,11 6 

Jed-Porost ..II 
Botongfamolrl 1 
Wa esonlus - 1 1 

w of Scot 11 

Stirling Co .,10 


THIRD DIVISION 

East KBbrldo 9 Peebles 13 

Glenrothes — 6 Gordkwlans -47 

Grangemouth — 14 Glasgow S 8 

Stewa r t s Mel PP15 Berwick 18 

! Ayr v Preston Lodge. 


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ANGLO-WELSH MATCHES 
Bedford.— .14 Swansea —38 
28 Cardiff 24 


Melrose O 

D L P APts 

2 427 220 49 

4 332 199 40 

3 279 182 37 
2 245 187 35 

5 210 240 28 
5 221 268 21 
8 242 291 18 

7 239 307 18 

8 186 283 16 

9 T 54 358 4 


SWALEC CUP 
FOURTH ROUND 


Group A: Dinas Powys 5 Pomypool Uni 
16. Ebbw vae 73 Treherbert 15. Group 
B: Gtynneach 10 Trimsaran 25. Post- 
poned: Cross Keys v Dunvanc. Groap G 
Bridgend 29 Ikearctiy 24; lalywaln 9 Nan- 


tymoef 14. Groap Eh Beddau 0 WNtland 
id 64 FS-Jga 


Nottingham — P Liverpool St H P 
Wharfedale _23 Newbury ,10 


TWO SOUTH 

Bracknell 24 Plymouth 13 

Havant 13 Cheltenham .31 

Met Police — 18 Bridgwater -.18 

Norwich 7 Esher 28 


SECOND DIVISION 


Aberdeen G5PP21 Edinburgh Ac 13 
tee H! 


.14 Dundee H5FP 


34 Selkirk . 


- — 20 KBnumocJi 1 9 

Massalbotgh — 16 KIritcaMy 26 


35: ftjmypod 64 RWgas 8. Groap E: feny- 
gratg 10 Rhymney 8; Wrexham IS Neath 
46. Group h Monmouth 1 1 LianMIleth 20: 
Yscradgynlais 32 Vardre 20. Groap G: 
Uanharan 19 Newport 25: Rtoca 8 Sw a nse a 
57. Creep Hfc Heo-V-Cyw 10 Ibndu 27; Hfr- 
naun 19 Kidwelly 9. Group 1: Narberth 19 
Caerphilly 29. Postponed: Cwmavon * 


Bedwas. Group J: Abercwmbd 5 Maesreg 
troop lb 


SATURDAY’S LOTTERY UPDATE. 


Draw data: 2.9/12/98. The winning numbers: 9, 20. 18, 25, 28. 48. Bonus number: S4. 

Total Salas: £63.185.293. Prize Fund: £32.569.387 (4596 of ticket sales plus £4,136.006 Rollover amount). 






Match 6 (Jackpot) 

5 

£2.372.249 

£11,861.245 

Match 5 plus bonus ball 

26 

£91.422 

£2.376.972 

Match 5 

1.314 

£1.130 

£1.464.820 

Match 4. 

78.355 

£41 

£3.212.555 

Matcn 3 

1,357.715 

£10 

£13.577.150 

TOTALS 

1.437.415 


£32,512,742 


Total uoefc’s contribution W Good Cams: £28,000,000. 


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29; Betws 3 Blackwood 15. Group 
Biaengarw 10 Ynysybwl 10 (Ynysybwt win 
on away ream rule): Pontydun 0 Uaneill 
80. Gram L: Pencoed 1 1 Abertfliery 25. 
Postponed: CanJtrr v Llandov er y. Group 
M: Cwmllynfell 13 TafTs Well 7: Pon- 


typridd 71 Aberavon 15. Group N: BuRth 
- degar 20 M 


Wefls 5 Rumoey 26; Tredegar 20 Merthyr 
16. Group O: Aberavon 49 Carmarthen 
Quins 22; Ystrad Rhondda 1 9 South Wales 
Police 13 Group P: Botwmaen 51 New- 
bridge 12: Oahdale 7 UWK 12. 


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60 

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180 

215 

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30 

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140 

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Bristol’s foreign legion 
cope with culture shock 


EDITED BY JON CULLEY 

PREMIERSHIP TEAM OFTHE WEEK 


BRISTOL CITY, with only two 
wins in 12 League games fol- 
lowing Saturday’s defeat at 
Norwich, have an unashamed 
policy of buying foreign in 
hopes of leaving the lower 
reaches of the First Division. 

They believe that the do- 
mestic market is simply too 
expensive, and in the last fort- 
night alone have bought the 
Hungarian defender Vilxnos 
Sebok, the Danish goalkeep- 
er Bo Andersen and the Nor- 
wegian midfielder Kenneth 
Storvik, the combined fees 
adding up to less than Elm. 


But trawling talent from 
the far comers of Europe is 
not without its problems, and 
language barriers are only 
part of the culture shock. 

When Ion Tistemitanu, the 
Moldovan international cap- 
tain due to launch his City ca- 
reer after Christmas, arrived 
for transfer talks at Ashton 
Gate, he was less concerned 
with wages than with how 
many times he would be al- 
lowed to see his wife. ’’Ap- 
parently, players in Moldova 
don't get to see their families 
more than four times a year,” 


Taylor reluctantly 
joins silent order 


AFTER BEING rushed to hos- 
pital for emergency surgery 
on a throat abcess. the former 
England manager Graham 
Taylor is grateful just to be 
back on his feet But he is, 
none the less, having to suffer 
a kind Of football mana ger's 
purgatory. He is not allowed to 
shout. 

Taylor left touchline du- 
ties to his assistant, Kenny 
Jackett, at Grimsby on Sat- 
urday, and watched the Na- 
tionwide League match from 
the Blundell Park directors' 
box. 

Tm tinder strict orders to 
do what the doctor tells me," 
Taylor said “And that includes 
resting my voice." 

Naturally, it was left to 
Jackett to deliver the half-time 


ro Hi clangs in the dressing- 
room. But, to add to Taylor's 
frustrations, he was helpless 
to intervene as Watford fell be- 
hind four minutes into the 
second half and then conced- 
ed a late Grimsby winner 
after Gifton Noel- Williams had 
equalised. 

The defeat denied Whtford 
the chance to go second in the 
first Division table, but Tay- 
lor was no less complimenta- 
ry about Jackett's stand-in 
performance. 

“I do not envisage taking 
control of team affair s for an- 
other two to four weeks,” he 
said 

“But I am more than happy 
to allow Kenny to continue the 
excellent job he has been 
doing." 


the City chairman, Scott 
Davidson, recalled. “He was 
delighted when I said he could 
see her as much as he’d like." 

Tistemitanu chose City de- 
spite offers from Spartak 
Moscow and Romania's 
Steaua Bucharest If granted 
a work permit he will re- 
ceive a welcome pay rise after 
the £225,000 move from Zim- 
brul Chisinau. In Moldova, 
he earned £100-a-mcmth, de- 
spite international experience 
against the forwards of Italy, 
Germany and, at Wembley. 
England. 


the years since Chelsea 
last led the top division 
(First or Premiership) of 
the English leagues. 

12 

Nottingham Forest's run 
of Failures to keep a 
dean sheet. 

18 

The meetings since Tot- 
tenham last managed a 
League win over Chelsea 

68 

Middlesbrough's wait - in 
years - for a win at Old 
Trafford. Before Satur- 
day, the last was in 1930 


We are not in crisis. We 
are at a turning point 

Gerard HouDiei; speaking 
before Saturday's 2-0 
win over Sheffield Wednes- 
day. So for, so good - but 
will it last? 


NATHAN BLAKE 

Blackburn Rcveis 


BRIAN DEANE 

Middlesbrough 


RORV DELAP 

Dei by County 


JAMIE REDKNAPP 

Live' pool 


GUSTAVO POYET 

Chelsea 


STEPHEN GLASS 

New/Ldstte United 


DAN PETRESCU 

Chelsea 


MATT ELLIOTT 

Leicester ury 

MARK 

SCHWARZER 

Middlesbrough 

RIO FERDINAND 

West Ham . . 


DEAN GORDON 

Middlesbrough 


Manager of the weekend: Gtanhjca VialU. the fine manager to take Chelsea ro the top since Bobby Cvnpbefl in 
1 969-90. 

Performance of the weekend: Mklcflesb rough's splendid wicrory at CKd Trafford. their first on Manchester United's 
Home turf since 1930. 

Missing. . . making it. . . and mistaken 




Oyvind Leonhardsen Damien Johnson 


Liverpool 

Signed for £3.5m from 
Wimbledon in June 1997, the 
28-year-old midfielder capped 
his first season at Anfield by 
helping Norway reach the 
second phase of France '98. 
However, he has failed to 
find favour with the new 
Liverpool manager Gerard 
Houllier. Indeed, Houllier’s 
first match in sole charge 
last month was Leonhard- 
serfslast 


Blackburn 

Bom in Lisburn, Northern 
Ireland, the 20-year-old wide 
midfielder first caught the 
eye during a loan spell with 
Nottingham Fbrest last sea- 
son and has become a 
frequent member of the 
Rovers first team. A clever 
ball player already recog- 
nised at international level, 
he will provide hot competi- 
tion for new arrival of Keith 
Gillespie at Ewood Park. 


Frank Warren 

lender-pressure Barcelona 
coach Van Gaal could use 
some Frank advice on box- 
ing clever. But if surviving 
life’s ups and downs is the 
name of the game then the 
cerebral Dutchman will no 
doubt find Frank’s his man 



Kidd keen to lure 
Butt to Blackburn 


BRIAN KIDD wants to prise 
Nicky Butt away from Man- 
chester United, according to 
the People. Hie new Black- 
burn manager their story 
says, offered £5 .5m within 
days of leaving Old Tkafford 
and is now ready to up his bid 
to £7m. Hie Sunday Mirror 
says he is ready to offload 
Kevin Davies to help finance 
incoming deals, but reckons 
bis targets are Barnsley’s 
Ashley Ward and West Ham’s 
John Hartson. Kidd is also 
keen on United defenders 
David May and Henning 
Berg - both ex- Blackburn - 
according to the Express. 

The Express says Ward 
remains a target for Leeds 
and Sheffield Wednesday, 
who, the People thinks, have 
turned down a £2m offer from 
Charlton for Andy Booth. The 
People believes Ward will go 
if Barnsley succeed in a £im 
move for young York striker 
Richard Cresswefl. The News 
of the World, meanwhile; sug- 
gests Leeds are after Coven- 


try’s Darren Huckerby, but 
wifi have a £5m offer reject- 
ed by the Higbfield Road 
club, who want £8m_ 

Ljverpool are checking on 
Real Madrid goalkeeper 
Bodo nigner, says the Ex- 
press, while the People spec- 
ulates that Anfield manager 
Gerard Houllier has become 
an admirer of Leicester mid- 
fielder NeO Lennon. 

The News of the World 
says Barcelona are ready to 
offer Alex Fferguson £2m a 
year to succeed Louis van 
Gaal as coach, and reports 
that new Sampdoria boss 
David Platt has £3m to keep 
Sheffield Wednesday stay- 
away Paolo Di Canio in Italy- 
On the business front, the 
Mirror predicts that a sell-off 
of West Ham stars will pave 
the way for a £35m takeover, 
while the News of the World 
says NTEs takeover of New- 
castle will provide Ruud Gul- 
lit with a £20m transfer pot, 
and a further £l5m for youth 
development 


Louis van Gaal 


Todar Aston villa, whose victory over Arsenal last weekend was their 
first In five Premiership matches, bid to return to the top by winning at 
Chariton, who are among five dubs beginning to lose touch with the rest 
of the division. 

tomorrow. In a quiet build-up to Christmas. Notts County's home tie 
with Hull CJty In the first round of the Auto Windscreens Shield (North- 
ern Section) represents not merely the only game In town but die only 
one In the country before Bating Day, None die less, a rush for tickets 
at Meadow Lane is not anticipated. 

Saturday: The usual assortment of funny kkJt-off times as Arsenal meet 
West Ham at noon and Blackburn take on Aston VDia at 6pm. In between. 
Coventry (v Tottenham). Ever ton (v Derby). Manchester United (v For- 
est). Middlesbrough (v Liverpool). Newcastle (v Leeds] and Sheffield 
Wednesday (v Leicester) get under way at the normal 3pm. Southamp- 
ton (v Chelsea) aid Wimbledon (v Chariton) also have noon starts. In die 
Nationwide League, First Division leaders Sunderland are ar Tranmere 
and second-placed Ipswich meet Portsmouth. Second Division leaders Ful- 
ham face Colchester at noon, the same time as Third Division pace-set- 
ters Cardiff meet Shrewsbury North of the border. Scottish Premier leaders 
Rangers are away to fourth-placed St Johnstone. 


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17 Jaa Newcastle fH); 30 top Man Iftri (A) 

28 Dk West fen (Afc 9 JaaNomnForcst (HJl '■ 

15 Jaa C JeteM (A): 30 Jan Liverpool (H). - _ 

28 Dec Leicester (A): 9 ton Leeds (H): 

16 Jaa Derby (At: 30 Jan Tottenham (H). 

28 Dec Nottm Forest (A); .9 Jn Char ken 
(H);16 Jan Liverpool (Ah 30 Jam Leeds (H). 

28 Dec Southamprai (H): 9 Jaa Coventry (AJ.T6 
Jan Arsenal (H)-. 3Q Jan Ewrton (A). 


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FA CARLING 
PREMIERSHIP 

Yesterday 

I Arsenal Leeds (0) 1 

Bergkamp 28 HasseftMink 66 

Vieira 53 38.025 

Peat 82 

Arsenal's GiBes Grimandi sent off. B6 

Saturday 

Chelsea Tottenham 

Coventry ..1 Derby ... H „_,1 

Liverpool 2 Sheff Ufed O 

Man Utd 2 Mlddlosbrough~3 

Newcastle 1 Leicester O 

Nottm Forest — 2 Blackburn — 2 

Southampton — 3 Wimbledon __.1 

West Ham 2 Evert oo 1 

FOOTBALL 

CONFERENCE 

Barrow — 2 Forest Green — T 

Cheltenham 3 Stevenage O 

Doncaster 5 Dover h 

HednestoRl 3 Welling 2 

Hereford JO Kettering JL 

Leek 2 Kingston! an 2 

Morecambe 2 Hayes 3 

Roshden 1 Famborough — O 

Southport 1 Kidderminster ..1 

Woking Northmfcb 1 

Yeovil 4 Telford D 

P W D L F APtS 

Kettering 23 13 5 5 3116 44 

Cheltenham — 20 1 1 7 2 37 17 40 

Rushden IB 10 5 3 36 16 35 

Stevenage. — 20 9 7 A 26 20 34 

Yeovil — 20 S 8 4 29 22 32 

Hednesfbrd._.19 8 8 3 27 2132 

Hereford .21 9 5 7 26 22 32 

Kbigsroolan _. 1 9 8 7 4 29 25 31 

Morecambe — 21 9 3 9 39 42 30 

Hayes 19 9 2 8 23 27 29 

Woldng^. 19 8 4 7 25 23 28 

North wich 21 7 6 8 23 24 27 

Kidderminster 19 7 4 8 29 23 25 

Southport 19 5 S 6 25 26 23 

Dover ... — 19 5 6 6 20 23 23 

LeekTbwn 20 6 3 11 30 31 21 

Barrow .22 5 6 11 21 38 21 

TUTord 20 4 S 8 22 34 20 

Forest Green JO 4 7 9 23 29 19 

Doncaster 20 4 5 11 22 31 17 

Famborough .JO 4 5 11 21 40 17 

Welling J1 2 9 10 19 33 15 

DR MARTENS LEAGUE Premier Divi- 
sion: Arhersrone 0 Weymouth 0: Boston 
Utd 1 Gloucester O: Cambridge Gty 1 
Nuneaton 1: Crawley 4 Bromsgrove 1: 
Dorchester 2 King's Lynn J; Gnesfey 0 
Grantham 1 : Halesowen Town 3 Salisbury 
3: Ilkeston 2 Merthyr Tydfil 0: Rockwell 
3 Bath 2; lamwonh 0 Burton 1 ; Worces- 
ter 0 Hastings 0. Leading positions: 1 
Nuneaton (P2i Pts471; 2 Bath (19-33); 
3 Ilkeston (21-331: 4 Crawley (IB-33). 
Midland Division: Bedworxh 0 Newport 


(Gwent) 1: Bllscon 2 Sutton Coldfield l; 
Bkwwlcti 2 Stamford 5; Clevedon 2 War- 
wick 0; Moor Green 7 Gnderford 2: Paget 
Rangers 1 Evesham 2; Stourbridge 0 
Shepshed 2: VS Rusty 2 Stafford 3: West- 
on-super-Mare 1 Hinckley Utd I . Sooth- 
era Division: Andover 1 Raunds 2: 
Corby 1 Dartford 2; Fisher Athletic 2 
Braddey 0: Folkestone 4 Baldock 0: 
Havant 6 Waterloovllle 3 Cirencester 0: 
Sitdngbourne 0 Erirti 6 Belvedere V. Si 
Leonards 1 Margate 6: Witney 0 New- 
port (JoW) 1; race 1 Fleet 3. Other 
matches postponed. 

HYMAN LEAGUE Premier Division: 

Aldershot 1 Heybridge 1; Billencay 1 
Dulwich (h Bishop's Stanford 1 Bromley 
3; Chesham 0 Basingstoke 2; Gravesend 
2 Dagenham 6 Redbridge 0: Hendon 1 
Carshalton 1: Pur Fleet 6 Walton 6 Her- 
5ham I: Slough 0 Boneham Wood 3; St 
Albans 1 Harrow I ; Sutton Utd 1 Enfield 
1. Postponed: Hampton v Aylesbury. 
Leading postioam 1 Aylesbury |P19 
Pts4l): 2 Billencay (20-381: 3 Purfleet 
(21-37): 4 Sutton Utd (18-37). First DM- 
sloa: Barton 2 Berkhamsced 0: Bognor 
Regis 4 Wembley 1; Braintree 1 Grays 1: 
Chertsey 0 Molesey 2; Oxford Gty 2 Wor- 
thing 2. wealdstone 1 Leathertiead 1; 
Yeadlng 1 Carney Island 3. Other match- 
es postponed. Second Division: Chalfont 
St Peter 5 When hoe 2; Harlow 3 Bed- 
ford Tbwn O; Hertford 0 Edgware I: Hor- 
sham 1 Hemei Hempstead 5: Hunger ford 
0 Metropolitan Police 2: Leighton I Wind- 
sor 6 Eton I; Nortfrwood O Banstead 2; 
Thame 3 Bracknell O. Tooting & Mitcham 
O Mariow 2; Wtham 2 Abingdon ‘Town 
2; Wokingham 2 Barking 3. Third Divi- 
sion: Aveiey 2 Cheshunt I: Dorking 1 
Croydon Athletic 5: Ford Utd 5 Southall 
I: Kingsbury I Lewes 2: Tilbury 1 Cam- 
bertey 1 ; Tnng 2 Epsom & Ewell 1; ware 
2 Flackweil Heath O: Wingate 6 Finchley 
5 Clapton 0, Other mofrnes postponed. 
THE TIMES FA YOUTH CUP Third 
round: Manchester Utd 2 Eve non 2. Fri- 
day: Manchester City 2 Sheffield Wed- 
nesday 3; Huddersfield Town 4 Bradford 
aty 0. 

PRESS A JOURNAL HIGHLAND 
LEAGUE: Cove Rangers 7 Devensnvale 
2; Elgin 0 Hundy 2: Lossiemouth 4 Naim 
1; Peterhead 5 Forres I. Other matches 
postponed. 


NATIONWIDE LEAGUE 
FIRST DIVISION 
Yesterday 

Sheff Utd (0) —1 Ipswich (0) 2 

Devlin 78 Abou 49 

12,944 Naylor 90 

Barnsley — 1 Smtndon 3 

Birmingham Sunderland _..Q 

Bolton - 3 Portsmouth 1 

Bradford 2 wolves 1 

Creme 1 Huddersfield 2 

Crystal Palace _1 OPR — 1 

Grimsby — -.2 Watford 1 

Norwich „2 Bristol City 1 

Port dale 1 Bury .0 

Stockport. 2 Oxford Utd .0 

West Brora 0 iNnintie 2 

SECOND DIVISION 

Burnley 0 Northampton J 

Chest e r fi eld 1 Wigan 1 

GflBngham 4 Notts CoonJty — O 

Luton 1 Mid wail 2 

Preston 0 FnEmm 1 

Reading 1 Oldham 1 

Walsall 1 Stoke .0 

Wrexham 0 Bournemouth — 1 

Wycombe * Lincoln City 1 

York 2 Man aty 1 

P W D L F A Pts 

FhUmjh 21 14 3 4 33 16 45 

Walsall 22 14 3 5 33 24 45 

Stoke 22 14 2 6 30 16 44 

Preston 21 10 7 4 37 22 37 

GIHbigham 22 9 10 3 33 18 37 

Bournemouth 20 9 6 5 32 21 33 

Chesterfield.. .21 9 6 6 22 15 33 

MDhrafl 22 B 8 6 22 23 32 

Reading .21 8 7 6 35 27 31 

Mflgan 22 8 6 8 28 22 30 

Lutou — 20 8 6 6 27 23 30 

Mao Chy 22 7 9 6 25 21 30 

Blackpool 22 7 8 7 27 27 29 

Vbrk 22 7 6 9 28 37 27 

Colchester 2T 6 8 7 21 25 26 

Bristol Rvrs—22 5 10 7 24 25 25 


Wrexham 22 

Northampton .22 

Burnley 22 

Notts County 
Maodesflefd _22 

Wycombe 22 

Oldham 22 

Lincoln City ,_22 


7 9 21 29 25 
9 B 21 23 24 
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6 10 23 32 21 
9 9 19 28 21 

7 1 1 20 27 19 
6 12 20 35 18 
4 15 21 42 13 


THIRD DIVISION 

Barnet MM J Leyton Orient .2 

Cardiff 4 Mansfield 2 

Darlington 3 Scun th orpe 1 

Halifax 1 Exeter 1 

Hartlepool 2 Southend 4 

Hull . . .0 Swansea 2 

Peterborough .3 Scarborough — 1 

Plymouth __.2 Carlisle 0 


Rochdale 2 Bs 

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Cardiff 22 13 

Brentford 20 13 

..22 11 
-22 10 
Peterborough 22 11 
Cambridge Utd2 1 1 1 
Laytoo Orient 22 9 

Rotherham 22 9 

Scunthorpe —2 2 10 
Darlington 20 9 




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4 5 29 18 43 
0 7 36 26 39 
4 7 34 27 37 
7 5 31 20 37 
3 B 39 28 36 
3 7 33 25 36 
7 6 28 26 34 
6 7 *0 32 33 
3 9 36 38 33 
4 7 30 24 31 


Brighton 22 10 1 11 29 31 31 


Swansea 21 8 

Plymouth 21 9 

Rochdale 21 7 

Chester 21 6 


Swansea 21 8 7 6 26 21 31 

J1 9 3 9 25 20 30 

>21 7 7 7 21 23 28 

1 6 9 6 28 30 27 

sontnena 22 7 6 9 28 32 27 

Barnet 22 8 3 11 27 39 27 


Exeter 21 7 5 9 21 24 2ft 

Hartlepool 22 7 4 11 32 37 25 

Tbrqnay 22 5 9 8 24 30 24 

Sh rewsbu ry —22 6 610 17 26 24 

Carlisle 20 6 5 9 18 22 23 

Scarborough -_22 6 3 13 23 34 21 

Hull 22 4 3 15 18 40 15 

GERMAN LEAGUE: Bayem Munich 3 
(Jancker 40. Elber 86. Saflhamktnc 901 VfL 
Woifsbivg 0: Hanxa Ftosmck 1 (NeuvUle 72) 
Bayer Leverkusen I lavkotrfc 29): Hamburg 
2 (Gravesen pen 53, unibac pen 90} Nurem- 
berg 0: Scha&e 04 1 {WUmocs 77) B 
MftnchengUdbaeh 0: Kaheniaurein 1 
60) T5V i860 Munich l(MMder 51) Ebura- 
Cftr Frankfurt 0 MSV Duisburg 0: Freiburg 1 
(Beya 50) VfL Bochum I [Scmndzlerton: 90; 
Boniuia Dortmund 3 (Herrfich 38, But 48. 
Satan 63) VTH Stun&rt D. Se am n HgK 1 Bay- 
ern MuSch iP78. Pts44); 2 Bayer Leverkusen 
(16-36); 3 Kafcenlauiem 118-34). 

FRENCH LEAGUE: Marseilles 2 (Plres 32. 
70) Le Havre Or. Bordeaux & (Mteoud 37, 90. 
Wlltord 47. Laslandes 55. 58. 76l Metz fr. 
Strasbourg ! [Conteh 60) Remes I (Bardcm 
35): Sochain I (Bouger 43) Nantes T (Fab- 
brl 70); Ntanaco O Lyons 1 (Bak 23). BasUa 
2 (Alves 48. Laurent 87) Aisome 0: Lortent 
2 (Loko pen 39. 77) ftris St-Getmaln 0; 
Nancy 0 Lens 1 (Foe 17); Ibulouse 2 (Preset 


tau 63) VTB Stuttgart D. S fmeug*. 1 Bay- 
I Muldi (Pis. PU44); 2 Bayer Leverkusen 


lags: 1 Marseilles (P20. PtsA7); 2 Bordeaux 
f20-44); 3 lions 120-32); 4 Rennes |2D-32|. 
ALBANIAN LEAGUE: Skenderbeu Korce 4 
FOrtltanl Tirana 0; Dinamo Tirana 2 Bylb BaWi 
1; Shkumbim Feqln 5 Lad 0: Haata Dunes 1 
Apatanta Fter 1; Tomorrl Boat 1 Fiamu/on 
Vine Cf. VUaziUa Shkoder 3 Lushnja 0; Besa 

Kavafe O Bbasanl O: Btanyi o 5K Rrma Tirana 

0. Snmdlngs: 1 SK Tirana (P15 Pts30): 2 
Bylb Balbh (15-29), 3 Lushnja (15-28) 


SCOTTISH PREMIER 
LEAGUE 

Celtic 5 Dunfermline —O 

Dundee — — ..1 Aberdeen »,.»2 

Hearts — — 2 Rangers 3 

Motherwell 1 St Johnstone 2 

P n D L F APts 

IhmgevS 18 11 4 3 34 16 37 

Kflmarnock — 18 8 7 3 25 1 1 31 
Celtic —-..7 9 8 6 5 39 20 30 


St Johnstone _1 9 7 

Hearts 19 6 

Mo th erwell — 19 5 

Dundee—. — IB 5 

Aberdeen 19 5 

Dundee Utd— IB 4 
Dunfermline ... 1 9 2 


8 4 23 25 29 

5 8 21 26 23 

7 7 17 26 22 

5 8 17 25 20 

5 9 19 29 20 

7 7 18 20 19 


4 33 16 45 

5 33 24 45 

6 30 16 44 
4 37 22 37 


Dunfermline -19 2 10 7 15 30 16 
‘does not bKhmelillmonmdiv Dundee Utd 

SCOTTISH LEAGUE 
FIRST DIVISION 

Ayr 5 Hamilton -.0 

Hibernian 3 Clydebank O 

Raich 1 Morton 3 

5c Mirren O Falkirk 3 

Stranraer 1 Airdrie J 

P W D L P APts 

Hibernian 20 13 5 2 41 22 44 

Falkirk 20 11 5 4 33 18 38 

Ayr— 20 11 3 6 41 25 36 

Airdrie 20 11 3 6 27 21 36 

St Barren 20 8 4 8 17 25 28 

Clydebank 20 6 7 7 19 24 25 

Hamilton JO 5 7 8 25 32 22 

Greenock Mtu.20 5 4 1 1 20 25 19 

Ralth 20 4 7 9 19 28 19 

Stranraer 20 3 I 16 1 8 40 1 0 


5ECOND DIVISION 


Alloa 

Arbroath— ... 

Clyde 

Llvtaigstuo — 
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Inv e rness CT_ 

Clyde 

Stirling 

Alloa 

Patrick- 

Artwrtor 

East Fife 

Queen of Sth - 
Forfar - 


3 Forfar — -1 

— J East Hfe -1 

2 Queen nf Sth 1 

0 Sdrilng 0 

2 Inverness CT — —T 

P IN D L P APts 


5 1 36 19 44 

5 3 39 2B 38 

6 4 28 19 33 

2 8 29 31 29 

3 8 42 29 27 
2 9 20 22 26 

4 8 IS 24 25 

4 10 23 37 19 

5 11 78 27 14 
4 13 16 37 10 


THIRD DIVISION 

Berwick 1 Albion Rovers -.1 

Brechin 1 Queen's Park O 

Comdenbth 3 East Stirling 2 

Dumbarton 1 Stenhous em nlr -4 

Ross County 3 M o n t r nso 0 

P IK D L P APts 
Ross Cooney — 19 14 1 4 49 20 43 

BrocMn 19 11 6 2 24 13 39 

Stenhsemnlr.— 1 9 10 3 6 30 19 33 

DnmbaKOn 19 8 4 7 25 21 28 


Berwkk 19 

Albion 19 

Queen’s Pk — 1? 
COfvdaabvatfe .. T 9 

East Stirling —19 
Montrose 1 9 


3 6 30 19 33 

4 7 25 21 28 
9 5 23 23 24 
3 6 23 36 24 
6 B 23 24 21 
3 11 20 35 18 
a B 22 25 17 

5 11 18 41 14 


DUTCH LEAGUE: Tkienre Enschede 0 Vitesse 
Arnhem 0: PSV Eindhoven 1 (Bruggu* 61) 
WHlem H Tilburg O. Gruftchap Doednchem 

1 (Lmdenbergh 441 AZ AlVmaar 1 (Huberts 
21): Heerenveen l (tv Klunabi 51) MW Maas- 
tricht I (Emerson 701: RKC Mhafeuiik 2 
(Landwhr 9. Wan Arum 57) MAC Breda I (Van 
As 17); Utrecht 4 (Robbemond 4. 25. Kuyt 
6. Martel 77) Sparta Rotterdam 1 (Van do 
Hoeven 56V- reyenoort 1 (Van Wfcndcren 70) 
A|a> 1 (McCarthy 38). Bran di ngs: 1 Feyenb- 
ord (PI B Pts43): 2 Vitesse Anihem (19-371: 
3 Aftt (19-34). 

SPANISH LEAGUE: Deporttvo La Ccroria 2 
|D(almlntu pen 17. Schuner S5) Real Beos 

2 (Zarandofu 16. Ofi 09) Villarreal 0 ABI- 
letk Bilbao 1 (Urzair 54); Atletico Madrid 0 


(Kovacevlt 37. B7) Celu V1 k- 0; Espanyol 2 
ICapdevda 35. Pariaio 75) vafencJa 1 (Fad- 
nos 42): Alavs I (Azcoltla 68| Salamanca 
0 St aodte gs: 1 Mallorca (PI 5 Pts29); 2 
Celia 115-25); 3 Valencia 115-25). 

GRmc LEAGUE: Phnuhlnahos 5 Apollon 0; 
Parydcfskrtefcos I Kavala 1 ; RanHakos 1 WOK 
PrOcdeftM 3 Edvd** Asteras tr. CH 2 lonfcos 
1 Olymptakos (PI3 Pts31): 2 
AEK (13-29); 3 FAOK (14-29). 

BELGIAN LEAGUE: Osiend 2 Ghent 2: 
Andedecht 3 Beveren l ; LomtneJ 2 Excelsior 
Mouscron 3: Lokeren 2 Kortrip, I: St-Trulder 

0 Westerio O; Lierse 1 Genk I; Germinal 
Ekrren 2 Club Bruges O: Harelbeke I 
Cturleiol 1: Eendraoit Aabu I Standard 
Litoe 0. Standings. 1 Out Bruges (Pl9 
PtslO): 2 Genk (19-38). 1 Lokeren (19-34): 
4 Excelsior Mouscron (19-34). 
PORTUGUESE LEAGUE: Boavista 3 
Farense 0: Campomatarense 1 GuImarAes 0; 
Porto 3 Sptvring Lisbon 2. 

TURKISH LEAGUE: Ercurumspor O Fener- 
bahee 2: Altay ' Karabutepor 0; Ankaragu- 
cu 1 Sakarwspor 0; Istanbuispor 0 
GencJerbirM? ft Kocaeftspot 2 Adonaspor 1, 
Standings: 1 Fenerbahce (PT7 Pis38): 2 
Besiktas (16-37); 3 Trabaonspor (17-36). 
tSHACU LEAGUE: Hapod Tel Avty 1 Bnd 
Ybhuda i; Zafrtrim Hotan 3 Hapod Jerusalem 
1; Maccabl HerUfya 0 Macubi Haifa l; 
Hapod Petah Tlkya I Maccabi Petah TBwa 
I: Hapod Haifa 6 Hapod Mar Sava ft Berar 
Jerusalem 1 MatraN H Arlrll Maccabi Jaffa 

1 Ironi Rishpn Leeion 4; Hapoef Belt She'an 
1 1rani AstvJod 1 . Standings: 1 Hapod Haifa 
(PI 3 PB35J: 2 Macabi Haifa (f3-29); 3 
Be car Jerusalem (13-25). 


ITALIAN LEAGUE 
CegOarl (0) 0 Bologna (0) 1 

20.000 Signori 5! 

Em poll (2| .....3 Parma (2) 5 

Pane 10 Crespo 1 1 

Dl Napoli 24, 88 Boghossian 45 

12.000 Fuser 57. 90 
Fiore 83 

Juventns (21 .... 3 SaJendtana (0) O 
Inxaghi 20, 29. 87 45.000 

SolerrriitmasSalmicre Monaco sent oft. 57 

Lazio (1) 3 Udlnese (1) 1 

Mancini 1 7 Locatelll 5 

Solas 55. 90 40,000 

Perugia (I ) 2 Horantina (1) .2 

Rapaiic 1 Robbioo 10 

Nakata pen 90 Batistuta 73 


Rapauc 1 
Nakata pen 90 
20.000 

Piacenza (2) 3 Bari (1) 2 

Piovani 1 9 Nlas/ngo 37 

Stroppa 4 1 Innocenti 90 

RasteJII 89 10,000 

Bari's Gkmluca Zambrottj sent otf.S 5 

Sampdoria (0) -2 Milan (1) 2 

Palmieri 57 Leonardo 38 

Ortega 85 Bierhoff 72 

23.000 

Vicenza 0 Ueoezla 0 

16.000 

Lfeneda's Fatao &6co sent off. 63: Vtccnra's 
Massimo Beghetio sent of/. 90 
Ftonendna 14 3 2 3 26 14 29 


Parma 14 

Milan 14 

Roma ............ 1 3 

Lazio 14 

Bologna 1 4 

Inter 13 

Juvencus 14 

Perugia .14 

Bari 14 

Piacenza 14 

Udlnese 14 

Cagliari 14 

Sampdoria .._1 4 

'Em poll 14 

Vicenza 14 

Salernftana _ 1 4 
Venezia ~T4 


2 23 9 26 

3 21 16 25 

2 27 14 23 

3 27 18 23 

3 17 11 21 

4 22 19 21 

5 15 14 21 

5 20 24 19 
2 16 15 18 

6 IB 18 16 
6 16 24 16 
a 19 20 14 
6 14 27 14 
6 12 20 12 
6 8 17 12 

6 11 23 12 

7 5 14 II 


"Empoll deducted 2 pts: table does not 
include IncerncuJonole r Roma 
ASIAN GAMES (Bangkok) Final: Iran 2 
(Karimi-Fbshakl 6. 9agheri 26J huwait 0 
Third and fourth place play-off: China 
3 (Fan Zhlyl 25. Viang Peng 66. Ma Mingyu 
83) Thailand 0 

LEAGUE OF WALES: Barry 5 Aberystwyth 
1 , Caernarfon 2 TNS LLmsanilfiJid 1 ; Coer- 
sws 0 Rhayader 0: Cwmbran 4 Hoi well 0. 
Haverfordwest l Carmarthen 2: Rhyl 1 
Inter Cable-Tel Cardiff 2 Friday: Conwy 3 
Bangor uty I. Leading positions: 1 Barry 
(PI 4. Pts34): 2 Cwmbran (15-30). 3 
Aberystwyth (14-26) 

SMIRNOFF DUSK LEAGUE Premier Divi- 
sion: Ballymena 0 GJenavon 1 : Cliftomrille 

0 Coleraine 0; Crusaders 2 Omagh 0. Glen- 
toran 5 Newr y 1 Friday: Porta down 1 Lin- 
fleld 1. Leading poshtoos: 1 Glennran 
(P20. PE421: 2 Lai field (20-40): 3 Crusaders 
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26/FOOTBALL 


THE INDEPENDENT 

Monday 21 December 1998 



Reds still a ghost of Christmas past ^Schan 


I or a 

:i W 


PALPITATIONS ON the bench 
and periods of anxious silence 
in the stands provided testi- 
mony that the Liverpool re- 
naissance remains a fantasy far 
a Christmas yet to come. 

But, for management and 
supporters alike, this humble of- 
fering will suffice as a Christ- 
mas present, warding off as it 
does the humiliation of the 
club's worse sequence in 44 
years. 

Gerard Houllier's repeated 
Haims of grounds for optimism 
meet with growing scepticism 
on Merseyside, and the pa-' 
tience of the natives would 
surely have snapped after a 
ninth defeat in 12 games. 

Instead they were served 
with a deserved if unspectacu- 
lar victory, Liverpool sum- 


BY DERICK ALLSOP 


Liverpool 

Sheffield Wednesday 


moiling enough quality -from 
the archives in 15 vibrant and 
destructive first-half minutes 
to expose the frailty of Sheffield 
Wednesday’s much vaunted 
resurgence. 

That Liverpool then revert- 
ed to the sterile football which 
has characterised more re- 
cent times was confirmation 
that no seasonal miracle had 
been worked. A kind of bal- 
ancing act had been accom- 
plished. This latest evidence 
suggests that Liverpool are a 
slightly better than ordinary 
side, and Wednesday an ordi- 
nary one. 


It all depends on your aspi- 
rations, of course. Fbr Wednes- 
day, “ordinary" represents no 
small achievement in the Pre- 
miership. At the start erf the sea- 
son, and only a few weeks ago, 
they were considered relega- 
tion fodder Now they look like- 
ly to hold their own in the 
upper league. 

Benito Carbone, all impish 
skills and elusive spins, brings 
the propensity for the unex- 
pected, the rest supply de- 
pendable, functional stability. 
On another day Andy Booth 
mi g ht have headed them back 
into contention: on this day he 
looked like another willing but 
ordinary player. 

The one man who might 
dance to Carbone's tune, of 
course, is his countryman 


Paolo Di Canio, who is eligible 
for a return to active duty on 
Boxing Day but chose to make 
his way on to the missing per- 
sons file rather than Wednes- 
day’s training ground. 

By common consent, Liver- 
pool have been missing a dom- 
inant central defender for some 
considerable time, but on Sat- 
urday the back three coped . 
relatively comfortably with 
Booth and generally managed 
to keep even Carbone ata safe 
distance. 

They will meet distinctly 
more menacing attacking 
forces, and Steve Staunton in 
particular will not always be as 
fortunate as be was on this oc- 
casion Wednesday were simply 
incapable of exploiting his now 
familiar lapses. 


Although Paul Ihce is a play- 
er of limited means, the midfield 
is a resourceful and potent de- 
partment when Jamie Ked- 
knapp steers its course, while 
Patrik Berger is an important 
source of goals. His right-foot 
blast which produced the open- 
ing for Liverpool was some- 
thing of a collector’s item. 

Michael Owen effectively 
put the match beyond Wednes- 
day with LrreapooTs second, but 
this was a strangely fleeting 
performance by the 19-year-old, 
and the attack is still a tanta- 
lising conundrum for HouUier 
Robbie fhwlec his other strik- 
er; had one of those afternoons 
that challenge your recollection 
of the swaggering youngster 
who scored goals and de- 
stroyed defences for fun. 


He scuffed a first half chance 
and squandered two more in 
the second when he could have 
spared HouUier and PhU 
Thompson all that touch-line 
torture. 

The restoration of a fufly fit, 
committed and focused Steve 
McManaman - or a direct re- 
placement if he is to leave - 
would give Liverpool another 
dimension that would also help 
to lift them above that sad, 
“slightly better than ordinary” 
category. 

Their overall problem is 
their inability to sustain the in- 
tensity of their football through 
a full match - or even half a 
match. 

Fifteen minute spells of ex- 
plosive football are insufficient 
to see off better teams than 


Wednesday and bring back 
some much missed fame and 
glory to AnfiekL 

Had Wednesday managed a 
goal in the second half the en- 
tire stadium would have been 
a bag of nerves. But as it is 
HouUier has a welcome 
breather There wfll be more 
tests and perhaps more palpi- 
tations to endure in the weeks 
and months ahead. 

Goats: Berger (18) 1-0: Ov*en (341 2-0. 
Liverpool (3-5-2): tames: Carragher. Swur>- 
un. Saw; Hegsjn (Ktorov. 82). tedknapp: 
I nee. Bereerrbiorneb^|Fovvter. Cwct 
(KJ edle. 87) Sohsdtunes not used: Frledd 
(gk). McAceer. Thompson. 


hard to / 
follow 


A i ■ Nfc 


BY LINDSAY HARRISON 


Coventry City 
Derby County 


Sheffield Wednesday # Srnicek- 
Attmon. Thome, WaUax rtndicine: to***-. 


Atherton. Thome. Watt** rtnchefiflcfltean- 
deisson (BmcOft. 5 8). Son yr. Jo rrit,_Ru c« 
(Humphreys. 85): Carbone. Booth. Sobsd- 
inte* xd used CJarte (gk). 5iefano«c 
Magtiton. 

Referee: A WBJae fO)esttr*-anm|. Booh- 
iogi: Liverpool: Bjomebye. Berger Shef- 
field Wednesday: HftKhcWfe. 

Often of Che match: Redknapp. 
Attendance 40.003. 


Chelsea 


at home 


with the 


top spot 


THE LAST time Chelsea topped 
the League, in November 1989, 
the team included Kevin Wilson, 
Alan Dickens, Ken Monkou, 
Dave Beasant and David Lee. 
John Bumstead was the regu- 
lar substitute. Few took their 
chaUenge seriously and the 
doubters were quickly justified 
as Chelsea took two points, 
from the next five games, con- 
ceding 16 goals in the process. 

The Chelsea team that 
reached the Premiership’s 
apex with a 2-0 win at Stamford 
Bridge on Saturday included Gi- 
anfranco Zola, Franck Leboeuf, 
Gianluca Vialli, Gus Poyet and 
Dan Petrescu. Tore Andre Flo 
was cm the bench. This time the 
challenge is being taken very 
seriously indeed 

Listen to the raperts, and not 
just the bookies who have 
marked them down as fav- 
ourites. George Graham, thrice 
a championship winner - once 
as a player, twice as a manag- 
er - confirmed: “They have 
the credentials to stay there. 
They have a lot of talent but 
that’s been there for a couple 
of years. This year they have 
consistency and they can han- 
dle the physical side of it The 
squad is formidable and they 
are more together as a unit.” 

That said, Graham felt his 
Tottenham side would have, 
taken a point had it not been for 
the dismissal of Chris Arm- 
strong an hour into a fractious 
match. He may be right, and 
they resisted stoutly with 10, but 
it is through winning such 
matches that championships 
are claimed. 

As Graham said, it is not just 
that the players who, with due 
respect to Ted Drake’s cham- 
pions of 1954-55, are probably 
the best squad in Chelsea's 
history, it is their attitude. In the 
past talented Chelsea sides 
have been fragile under pres- 
sure. either buckling in the- 
£ace of a physical challenge or. 



Glenn 

MOORE 


more recently, losing their 
heads and kicking out Not this 
team (though the absence of 
both Dennis Wise and Graeme 
Le Saux may have helped). 

They competed physically 
with Spurs- and stayed cool 
mentally, continuing to play 
patient football even after 20 
fruitless minutes attacking 
Spurs’ 10 men. . 

As important as turning 
draws into wins is their success 
this year m turning defeats 
mto draws - as fllustrated at Old 
Trafford in midweek. Having 
lost far ton many matches last 
season they remain unbeaten 
this, ever since that opening day 
defeat at Coventry. 

This is in part due to the fit- 
ness programme instituted by 
Vialli under the expert eye of 
Antonio Pintus, his former con- 
ditioning coach at Juventus. 

“We are better than the op- 
position in the last 15 minutes 
because we work really hard in 
the week,*" said Vialli. “If you do 
that you get reward.” 

Then there is the depth. As 
well as Wise (suspended) and 
Le Saux Cnjuredb Chelsea were 
also missing long-term casual- 
ties Pierluigi Casiraghi and 
Eddie Newton, and the less 
seriously injured Marcel De- 
sailly. and Roberto Di Matteo. 
And they still had Flo on the 
bench. 

. Depth ' aids consistency, 
which Graham picked out as 



All aims and Les, as Franck Leboeuf challenges Tottenham's Ferdinand during Chelsea’s impressive home win 


Allsport 


the most important ingredient 
in the championship mbc_ Ex- 
perience is similarly crucial: 
Alex Ferguson is fond of re- 
flecting that a team has to lose 
a championship before they 
can win it, as his own Man- 
chester United team and Black- 
burn found. 

This ought not apply to 
Chelsea. It may be more than 
40 years since the champi- 
onship trophy resided at Stam- 
ford Bridge but the players 
know an about winning titles. 

Between them they could 
put on quite a display of cham- 
pionship medals with Ed de 
Goey, Albert Ferrer Celestine 
Babyaro, Petrescu, Zola, Di 


Matteo, Vialli, Desailty and Le 
Saux possessing examples 
spanning seven countries. Most 
pertinently three of them have 
been won in Serie A, and Le 
Saux did so in England. 

As Vialli noted, their knowl- 
edge will prove crucial in the 
coming months: “This gives 
us all confidence, but teams win 
play harder against us now so 
life win be more difficult in the 
future. But we should be able 
to cope with it as we have ex- 
perienced players in the side 
who are used to staying at the 
top. I am curious as to how we 
will react but confident” 

Chelsea are generally ac- 
cepted as the best footballing 


team in the Premiership and 
their passing, control and 
movement can be exceptional 
This only occurred in patches 
on Saturday with several play- 
ers, notably Vialli and Zola, 
below pan However, Petrescu, 
whose physical commitment 
seems to have increased im- 
mensely since his place be- 
came uncertain, was in fine 
form and Poyet as impressive 
as even 

As he grows in influence, the 
Uruguayan could do for 
Chelsea what Emmanuel Petit 
did for Arsenal last year. His 
80th-minute goal scored off 
the post after Vialli had flicked 
on Babayaro’s pass, was his 


10th of the season and, said 
Wall! “He is the complete mid- 
field player. He is one of the 
most clever players I have 
played with. 

“He scores goals, his runs 
are clevei; his passes precise, 
he works very hard for the 
team and has an unbelievable 
attitude. He is always positive, 
a player managers always want 
in the squad” 

Ten minutes later Vialli won 
possession in midfield and Pe- 
trescu was already racing down 
the right as Leboeuf launched 
the ball forward Flo tucked in 
the Romanian’s cross and the 
blue flag took flight on top of the 
Premiership. The team then ad- 


journed to Di Matteo’s Latest 
restaurant venture. 

Aston Villa can budge them 
from the summit at Chariton 
tonight but it would be a huge 
surprise if Chelsea do not re- 
gain it between now and May. 


Goals: Ftyer (00) J-O: Flo (90| 2-0 
Chelsea (4-u-2j- De Goey: Ferrer. Do ber- 
ry Leboeur. Lamtwuide (GoKJ&aeK HO): Pe- 
neseu, Morns, Poyet, Bahaiwo: Vulw. 
Tote (FK 71) Substitutes not used: Mrctv- 
OXk. (gk). Terry. NlihG4l5. 

Tottenham Hotspur i*-4-2l: Waiver Carr. 
Young. Campbell. Simon (Edinburgh. 741; 
Fox (Alien. 85l. Ardor ton. Nielsen. Ginota 

(Clemente. 651; Armstrong. Ferdinand. 
Substitutes not used: CaWeraood. BaarcF 
sen |gh). 

Referee: G Poll (Tnngl. 

Sending-off. Tottenham. Armstrong. 
Bookings. Chelsea. Duberry. B^wyaro 
Vialli. Tottenham: Armstrong. Ferdinand 
Carr. 

Man or the match: Ferrescu. 
Attendance. 34.831 


CALL THIS old fashioned, but 
surely the idea of substitutions, 
when the scores are level, is to 
produce a goal. So the reason- 
ing at Gordon Strachan, when 
Coventry had been pegged 
back to l-l, in leaving the coun- 
try’s second leading goalscor- 
er on the bench for 88 minutes 
must remain hidden in man- 
agerial subterfuge. 

Coventry City need goals. 
They also understand their 
place in the food chain that is 
football's natural hierarchy. So 
they sold tiie man now the Pre- 
miership’s leading scorer for 
£5.75m (and next day Dion 
Dublin scored twice for Aston 
Villa); six weeks later they 
bought a 22-year-old, 17-goal 
marksman (and next day John 
Aloisi was nam ed as substitute). 

Fair play, no flaw in the ar- 
gument thus far But when rel- £ 
egati on -threatened Coventry, 
to hand back their full title tem- 
porarily mislai d last season, 
have failed to capitalise on total 
first-half dominance against 
Derby players still musing over 
what to buy the wife for Christ- 
mas, then logic suggests that 
throwing on a youngster keen 
for success might be a handy- 
tactic. 

But when did logic have any- 
thing to do with football? Last 
week Jim Smith, the Derby 
manager played three substi- 
tutes and saw one, his goal-hun- 
gry striker Dean Sturridge, 
grab an equaliser against 
Chelsea. This time he threw on 
a centre-back and a defensive 
midfielder and saw the latter, 

Lee Carsley, equalise Noel 
Whelan's first-half effort 

“Fbotbafl’s becoming more 
and more of a squad game and, 
fortunately, we’ve got a good 
squad,” said Steve McClaren, 
the Doty coach. “John’s not had 
much time with us,” said Stra- 
chan. “But his time wifl come." 
and recalled how, last January; 
when leading at Chelsea, he 
brought on a fourth striker in 
giving Viorel Moldovan his * 
debut “I got my fingers * V 
burned,” said Strachan. “We 
went from 1-0 up to 3-1 down.” 

Maybe fortune favours the 
brave. Certainly Strachan 
threw down the gauntlet to his 
first-choice forwards in buying 
Aloisi from Portsmouth for 
£650,000 and he has a longer- 
term view than one Midlands 
derby. Whelan responded well, 
looking sharp from the of£ 
snapping up his sixth goal of tteJ 
season when Mart Poom coufj^ 
only parry Steve Froggatt’s 
17th-zninute shot But when be 
fired over the bar when well- 
placed two minutes into first- 
half injury time, Derby 
appreciated their reprieve. 

Smith clearly has the golden 
touch with substitutions. He 
asked the left wing-bads Rory 
Delap to play as an inside- for- 
ward and, assisted by the strik- 
er who did survive the half-time 
chop, Paolo Wanchope, it was 
the former Carlisle midfielder 
who centred for Carsley to .. 
score on the turn. It was the Re-£, 
public of Ireland internationals* 
first goal for 15 months. But, 
then, Derby dearly know how 
to make their substitutions pay. 

Goals: Wheton (17) 1-0; Osley (50) 1-1. 


Frogaate Huckertiy. Whefcm. Subsumes not 
useet Ogrtzrwlc [gkj. Shtton. 

Derby Coon [3-4-3|: Room: Pnc* CSrbonari. 
Liursen. Defep. Powell. Bohlneti. Dorigo 


Li m-sen. Defop. Powell. Bohlnen. Dorigo 
(Hunt. 66): 5tunidge (BOott. M), Wanchope. 


Glass shines but jewellery hidden Saints do themselves good turn 



IN YEARS to come, they may 
well be asking in the pubs and 
cdubs of Tyneside: whatever 
happened to the unlikely lads? 

Big Dune and the not quite 
so big A1 may yet emerge as the 
Terry and Bob of the new mil- 
lennium in Newcastle. But An- 
dreas Anderssou and Ttemur 
Ketsbaia could only be de- - 
scribed as a striking partner- 
ship in one respect A more 
strikingly indifferent pairing 
would be difficult to imagine. 

Ruud Gullit might have ven- ’ 
tured that the mop-topped 
Swede and the polished-pated 
Georgian both “played well” at 
St James’ Park on Saturday. 
But then Newcastle's manager 
also suggested that “every dub 
should have a Warren Barton”. - 

Ketsbaia, it must be said, is 
simply an erratic variation on 
the theme of footballing enig- 
mas. He is just as liable to score 
the goal of tiie season a$ fall flat 
on his face in front of goal. 

Andersson is just., well, just 
dreadful. The Toon Army over- 
floweth with dread every time 
he gets the ball. They, even 


by Simon Turnbull 


Newcastle United 
Leicester City 


cheered when he stayed down 
injured after attempting to 
tackle NeQ Lennon, then jeered 
when GuDit decided to keep him 
on and withdraw Ketsbaia in- 
stead to accommodate Shear- 
er's return as a' substitute 10 
minutes into the second half. 

Not everybody on the Tyne 
is agaidst the Swede, however: 
Defender Steve Howey was 
quick to defend his colleague. 
u Yaa can hear the crowd getting 
their point across that they're 
not quite happy with Andreas, 
and the -boys- feel a little bit 
sorry for him because some- 
times he might lack a little bit 
of confidence," he admitted, 

• “But you watch him when he 
plays for Sweden and he’sa to- 
tally different player I think all 
he needs is maybe a good run 
in the team and a couple of 
goals and people will see the 
best of him. I think he knows the 
fens are expressing their dis- 


appointment at times, but he 
digs in and works his socks off.” 

It is just as well for New- 
castle that Shearer survived a 
crunching challenge from Matt 
Elliott with only minor cuts, and 
that the flu-ridden Fferguson is 
expected to be out of his sick 
bed before Leeds come on Box- 
ing Day. By then the Magpies 
might even have a new man on 
their wings to feed their cross- 
craving target man and their 
goal-hungry poacher-in-chief. 

Ibrahim Ba was nowhere to 
be seen on Saturday, sheepishly 
delaying his proposed £5 .25m 
transfer from Milan. It had 
once cost Newcastle £5.1m less 
to secure the services of the 


wide boy who is, according to 
the Carling Opta statistics, top 
of the Premiership's crossers. 
But Kevin Keegan chose to 
give Steve Guppy just 20 min- 
utes of first-team action before 
selling him on to Port Vale. 

Defensive duties and a 
dearth of possession meant 
Guppy did not bear many cross- 
es on his return to Tyneside. 
Leicester; in fed, only fashioned 


one chance of note and Emile 
Heskey fluffed it, dragging his 
shot across the face of Shay 
Given’s goal and wide when 
Frank Sinclair put him dear on 
the half hour 

Newcastle were not much 
better though Stephen Glass 
had a smashing enough game 
to warrant the match-winning 
reward of his side-footed goal 
from the left edge of the Leices- 
ter penalty area 20 minutes into 
the second half. 

The young Scot is not so 
much a winger as a midfielder 
with a sense of forward direc- 
tion. This Saturday he will 
renew his acquaintance with 
David Batty, who, according to 
the Talk of the Tbon, passed his 
recent medical sideways. 

Goal: Glass (65) 1-0 

H— taaa h United (4-4-2): Choi; Gurvct. 
Dahlias. Howey: Barton: Georgia <Ss, lee. 


S peed. Glass; Anderson. Ketsbaia (Shearer. 
55). Substitutes not used: Hamann. 
Hughes, Solano, Harper (gh). 

Leicester Oty (4-4-2): KeOen Sinclair (Kaa- 
rrarV. 62). Bluer. taggart. UBathome: Impey. 


lemon, Izzet (Savage. 48). Guppy; Cottce 
(Fenton, 661 , Heskey Subadttm hoc nserf: 
Zagoraius. Arphexad (gk). 


Rihtn: S Winter (Ingtehy Barwfekl 
Booking; Leicester- BDon. 

Man of the match: Glass. 
Attendance: 36.718. 


TOWARDS SIX o'clock on Sat- 
urday afternoon weary shop- 
pers carrying bags and boxes 
trudged past The Dell along 
Hill Lane, the road which rises 
gently out of Southampton city 
centre. 

This festive ritual was mir- 
rored by the town's football 
team who themselves climbed 
a mountain of sorts to deliver 
a pre-Christmas gift to their de- 
serving fans with a win over 
Wimbledon. 

It took Southampton off the 
bottom of the table and gives 
them renewed hope for a sea- 
son which they appeared to be 
on the point of abandoning as 
a bad job. 

It was hard to watch Wim- 
bledon's tame performance and 
not conclude that they had un- 
derestimated Southampton. 
“Well, we're just human aren't 
we, not machines," Joe Kinnear 
remarked. "Wte don’t want to 
take anything away from 
Southampton. We came here 16 
points ahead of them but didn't 
play like a team 16 points ahead 
of them." 


By Peter Conchie 


Southampton 

Wimbledon 


Doubtless they were also 
suffering from a shortage of 
adrenalin after Sunday’s hero- 
ic exploits; against Liverpool 
the Wimbledon players had 
stormed their opponents' de- 
fence like a band of anarchic 
revolutionaries. In contrast, on 
Saturday they formed a loose 
collective with neither direction 
nor conviction. 

From the kick-off Southamp- 
ton played in a direct and pur- 
poseful fashion with the 
20-year-old James Beattie, 
signed from Blackburn for nm, 
in threatening form. 

Within five minutes the 
home side would have been 
ahead were it not for fine goal- 
keeping from Neil Sullivan. 
Matthew Le Tissier’s cross 
was headed down by the young- 
ster and followed up by the Mo- 
roccan Hassan Kachloul and 
then Beattie again. 

After almost a dozen min- 


utes of Southampton pressure, 
Egil Ostenstad opened the 
scoring, Beattie flicking on a 
goal-kick from which the Nor- 
wegian rounded Sullivan and 
defender Chris Perry before fin- 
ishing well from a narrow 
angle. 

Beattie then attempted a 
duplicate finish from Le 
Tissier’s ball but struck the post 
from a slightly wider position. 

Importantly the home side 
kept their heads when they 
had nosed in front That they 
were allowed to was due in part 
to Wimbledon, who gave an 
uncharacteristically passive 

display, and also th anks to solid 
performances from England 
internationals Le Tissier and 
Carlton Palmer. 

Returning from suspension. 
Palmer’s workhorse consis- 
tency settled his young team- 
mates’ nerves as he ferried the 
ball from defence to attack 
along the right side of midfield 
Simple stuff perhaps, but it was 
exactly what Southampton 
needed and underpinned their 
game throughout 


In four second-half minutes 
the game was won. Kachloul, 
left unmarked between Perry ^ 
and substitute Ceri Hughes, » 
glanced a diving header past 
Sullivan from Le Tissier's 




cross. 

Beattie then headed onto 
the post and Kachloul back- 
heeled across to Ostenstad, 
who thumped in his second 
goal of the afternoon. 

“In the Premiership any- 
body can beat anybody,” Dave 
Jones remarked afterwards. 
Chelsea, who pay a visit to the 
south coast on Boxing Day, wiD 
be the next team to test this 
hypothesis after a strange and 
glorious weekend in the Pre- 
miership. 

Goals: Ostenstad (II) 1-0; KacMoui (64) 
2-0: Osienscad (68) 3-0: Gayle (76) 3-1 
Sofldumpeoiu (4-4-2) Jones, Hlky. Monk. 
U*Wekwm, Bridge: Kachloul. Palmer. Hugh- 
es. Le TlaMer (Basham. 781. Oneresud. Beat- 
tie Substitutes noe used: Warner. WMiams. 
Paul. Stensgaard (gd), 

JJtaWadoa: (4-4-2) Sullivan. Cunningham. 
Peiry, Blackwell. TTiaicher Earle. M Hughes. 
Ardley (Cmt. 78). Roberts (C Hugheih-t): 
Gayle. Bcotai (Kennedy, 83) Substitutes uo' -» 
ussd: Kimble. Bald* (gk). M 

Stefcr* 1 *: M Reed (Btrrnmgtiam). ™ 

Booki ng;: Songiampwat Kachloul. MKm- 
Uodoa: Perry Thatcher. 

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Moodav 21 December 1998 


FOOTBALL/27 


Rio grand, but can the Hammers hold him? 


COOL. STRONG, good in the air, 
comfortable on the ball, just 20 
£years old; no wonder Rio Her- 
• dinand is spoken of as a fixture 
in England's defence for the 
□ext decade, the natural suc- 
cessor to West Ham's supreme 
hero, Bobby Moore. 

Moore spent most of his ca- 
reer at Upton Park, interna- 
tional achievement bolstering 
his preference for familiar sur- 
roundings at a time when there 
was no great profit in switch- 
ing allegiance. 

Times change. “Who 
knows," Harry Redknapp 
replied reflectively when recent 
speculation about Ferdinand's 
future was put to him. "What 
we’re trying to do is make the 



Ken Jones 


progress that will keep Rio 
and other young players who 
are coming through happy." 

Ferdinand's performances 
may be doing wonders for Red- 
knapp's peace of mind - “I 
sleep easier just knowing he's 


in the team."- but West Ham’s 
manager must live with the 
possibility of losing him. “The 
way things are in football now 
it is difficult to keep a player 
when be can double, even tre- 
ble his wages by going to a club 
that has a good chance of win- 
ning the championship." 

If common sense prevails, 
Redknapp lives in hope that an 
extension of the improvement 
sustained since the relegation 
worries of two seasons ago 
will endear Ferdinand to the 
dub be has grown up with. Now 
sixth in the Premiership after 
a seventh place finish last 
term, their realistic target is a 
crack at European competition. 

At the risk of going over- 


board about a player who still 
has things to learn - a mistake 
that could hinder Michael 
Owen's progress - Ferdinand 
looks made for it 

The most glowing tribute 
comes from his French team- 
mate Marc Keller who was 
brought up with Marcel De- 
sailly and Lilian Thurman of 
his country's World Cup win- 
ning team. “Marc says that Rio 
will be in a different class to 
both of them,” Redknapp 
added. 

More than any other factoc 
Ferdinand's assurance under 
pressure enables Redknapp 
to risk the perils of momentum 
that allows the opposition room 
for retaliatory manoeuvre. 


Saturday's 2-1 defeat of 
Everton clearly emphasised 
West Ham's ability to break. 
Everton were not so much 
transformed in the second half 
as realising the possibilities 
arising from the Hammer's 
eagerness to get forward. 

“It became end to end stuff 
WC were r unning past each 
other in midfield," Redknapp 
added. 

Behind in the 19th minute 
when Keller’s attempted cen- 
tre found their net after loop- 
ing over Thomas Myrhe and 
striking the far post, Everton 
drew level when Danny 
Cadamarteri forced home a 
low centre from the substitute 
Nick Barmby. 


Everton, however were un- 
able to consolidate, their goal 
falling again almost immedi- 
ately when TYevor Sinclair 
launched himself at Keller's 
cross to head the winner 

Not that the game's fluctu- 
ations were over. Chances 
came at both ends and on an- 
other day Ian Wright, who fool- 
ishly got himself a mention in 
the referee's report for booting 
the ball out of play, might have 
been on a hat trick. 

A battle of wills in midfield 
between Eyal Berko vie and 
his shadow, Olivier Dacourt, 
briefly went the Everton man’s 
way when he began to spring 
forward, but it swung again in 
an exciting finale. 


Not in the least troubled 
when he is left without frontal 
protection - shades of the best 
defender ever to wear Eng- 
land’s colours - Ferdinand 
dealt calmly with crises that 
arose from Cadamarteri's 
eager surges. 

Even so, West Ham almost 
paid for their profligate finish- 
ing when conceding a free- 
kid: from 20 yards in the last 
minute. 

Dacourt struck it well but 
Shaka Hislop, adding to the 
good impression he has made 
since arriving on a free trans- 
fer from Newcastle, turned the 
ball for a corner. 

Walter Smith offered no ex- 
cuses for a defeat that ended 


Everton's mini revival. “We 
didn't perform in the first half 
and after getting back into the 
game we threw it away with 
bad defending," be said. 

Honours in that department 
went to the player whose abil- 
ity causes Redknapp to drool. 
“Frightening." he said. 

Goals: Keller ( 19 ) i- 0 : Cadamarteri ( 71 ] 

I-I: Sinclair (75) 2-1. 

West Ham (3-5-21: Hislop: Pearce. Fer- 
dinand. Dicks: Sinclair. Lomas. Bertovk. 
Lampard. Keller. Hartson. Wright. Stlb- 
sUtacoa not need Forrest (gt-). Breath- 
er. Potts. Omoyinmi. LazaruH. 

Rwjto n (3-5-2): Myrhe: Bilk. Marerazrl. 
Unsworrh. Ward (Collins. 75). Grant 
(Barmby, $4). Dacourt. Hutchison. Cle- 
land: Cadamacen. Madar (Branch. 6Ai. 
Substitutes not used: Simon sen (gk). 
Farley. 

Bookings. West Ham: Lomas. Wright. 
Everton: Dacourt. Hutchison. Bihc. 
Cadamarteri. 

Referee: R Harris lOxfcrdj. 

Man of the match: Ferdinand 
Attendance: 25.998 


Boro expose 
United plan 
to dominate 


THE TITANIC was a real life dis- 
aster of recent memory, rather 
than a film , the last time Mid- 
dlesbrough succeeded at Old 
Trafford. Their 3-0 victory in 
January 1930 came in a month 
of cataclysmic proportions for 
Manchester United, who also 
lost at home to Swindon Town 
of the Third Division South in 
the FA Cup. 

a»*> one expects a spell of 
sonilar upsets, or do we? On a 
day of reunions, one was no- 
table for its absence: Man-. 
Chester United's increasingly 
distant touch with defensive 
solidarity. Much more of this 
and ambitions, at home and 
abroad, will come to nothing. 

Twenty- one goals have been 
conceded in their last 10 
matches and. but fin* their qual- 
ification for the knockout phase 
of the European Cup, the last 
fair weeks would have been no- 
-3? only for unremitting 
mediocrity. The entertainment 
is gjorious. it is just the results 
that are problem. They have 
won only once now since No- 
vember 14. 

Forget the rousing finale 
and treat the scoreline as an 
imposter because, for an hour; 
supposedly the best team in 
England were overwhelming- 
ly outplayed Middlesbrough 
wer^plendid. United simply 

Nowhere was the contrast 
more exposed than in the 
home penally area, where 
Hamilton Ricard and Brian 
D» ane reduced Gary Neville 
and Ronny Johnsen to rubble. 
“In dividual errors,” was Jim 
Ryan’s succinct assessment, 
before adding enigmatically: 
“It is a worry. We will have to 
address it again." 

The fact that Ryan, the re- 
serve team coach, was ad- 
dressing the media was one 
symptom of the mitigating dr- 
p” -Stances that could be pa- 
raflw! in defence of the 


BY GUY HODGSON 

Manchester United 2 

Middlesbrough 3 


defence. Jaap Stam was miss- 
ing with an ankle injury but, 
more importantly, Alex Fergu- 
son was absent because of a 
family bereavement 

\bu can anty imagine the vul- 
canic activity on the touchline 
if the United manager had 
been present as Middles- 
brough went 3-0 up with goals 
from Ricard, Dean Gordon and 
Deane. But it was his selection 
that performed so badly, so 
perhaps little would have 
changed. Just the language in 
the dressing-room. 

It was not hard to find para- 
doxes. Farmer United players 
Bryan Robson and Viv Ander- 
son were directing operations 
from, the visiting bench while 
Gary Faffistei; who was a huge, 
mobfle'obstacle at Old Tafford 
for nine seasons, was magnif- 
icent in the Middlesbrough de- 
fence. 

“I think he should still be 
playing for England,” Robson 
said of Pallister and, while 
some might raise eyebrows at 
that, the giant centre-back 
could certainly be enrolled into 
the nation's diplomatic ser- 
vice, given his comments about 
United's wretched defending. 

“They’ve had a few usuries," 
he said, “they’ve never really 
had a settled back four; and that 
always causes problems. Steve 
[Bruce] and myself found out 
we were all over the place 
when we weren’t playing reg- 
ularly. If you can't get a settled 
partnership, it’s difficult Ob- 
viously they want to get their 
two best players at the back 
and have a partnership which 
will last as long as possible." 

On the assumption there 
was no defence, Ryan aban- 
doned it altogether in a death- 
or-glory charge at the finish 


and it almost yielded a point 
Ole Gunnar Solslgaer ramp on 
for Phil Neville and, more con- 
tentiously, Paul Scholes re- 
placed David Beckham. 

The En glan d midfielder had 
redeemed an undistinguished 
performance that culminated 
in a booking after an ugly lunge 
at Ricard with a cross that led 
to Nicky Butt’s goal. 

And he followed that up with 
a similar arc of precision that 
Ryan Giggs ought to have 
headed in. But Ryan was fear- 
ful that the short fuse was 
burning, and, when he looked 
for a way to introduce Scholes, 
Beckham was an obvious 
choice. 

The change almost had the 
required effect, too, because Sc- 
holes made the score 3-2 after 
70 minutes and was to the fore 
in the mayhem that caused 
Mark Schwarzer to clear 
straight to Andy Cole with four 
minutes remaining. 

The United striker’s shot 
was partially blocked by the 
Boro goalkeeper but was still 
heading for goal when Steve 
Vickers cleared it over his own 
bar 

Boro survived and their sup- 
porters could conclude the 
match by singing “We’re going 
to win the League". They will 
not, their squad is too shallow, 
but on this evidence neither will 
United, whose last clean sheet 
was on November 8. 

Urgent action is required 

Goals: Ricard (23) 0-?: Gordon (31)0-2; 
Deane (59) 0-3: Butt 162} 1-3: Scholes 
(70) 2-3. 

Manchester Itafcad (4-4-2): Schrodchei: 
P Neville (Sol5k(ae r . 78). Johnsen. G 
Neville. Irwin; Beckham (Scholes. 63). 
Keane, Butt. Giggs: Sheringham. Cole. 
Substitutes not used: Blomqvlsr. 
Brown. Van der Gouw (gk). 
Middlesbrough (3-5-2): Schwarzen 
Cooper. Vickers. Pallister Festa. Mustoe 
(Moore. 71). Maddlson (Beck. 82). 
Townsend. Gordon: Deane, Ricard. Sub- 
stitutes not used: Blackmon. Srockdale. 
Roberts (gk). 

Referee: G Willard (worthing). 

Bookings: Manchester Utd: Beckham; 
Middlesbrough: Festa. 

Man of the natch: Ricard. 
Attendance: 55.152. 



Gary Pallister gives Teddy Sheringbam a blast from the past Chris Gleave 


Forest’s 

currency 

devalued 


POOR FOREST They fight 
against the current, but in time 
tiie tide wifi surety sweep them 
away. The Nationwide League 
can dust off the welcome mat 
Fbrest are on their way back. 

They gave a gutsy perfor- 
mance on Saturday but in the 
end fortune did not look kindly 
on them. l\vo goals up at half- 
time, they allowed Blackburn 
back earty in the second half 
and just when they thought a 14- 
match run without victory was 
ovei; cracked again three min- 
utes into stoppage time. 

Thanks to Southampton’s 
success, Fbrest are bottom of 
the table for Christmas, a po- 
sition from which teams rarely 
recover. Worse still, they have 
no money for the January sales. 

Ultimately, that is what it 
comes down to: spending 
poweq an area in which Black- 
burn are enviabty placed. Last 
week, their owner. Jack Walk- 
er, sanctioned the £2 .35m pur- 
chase of Keith Gillespie from 
Newcastle and, it is reported, 
authorised the dub’s new man- 
ager; Brian Kidd, to go to £5m 
in his attempt to prise Ashley 
Ward from Barnsley. It makes 
a stark contrast with the Fbr- 
est manager; Dave Bassett, 
who knows it is pointless even 
to look on the same shell 

Fbr the Fbrest supporters 
who saw their future sold to the 
City two years ago. it is all a 
painful let-down. When the con- 
sortium financed by Nigel Whay 
and Irving Scholar won control, 
turning the old committee-run 
dub with its £1 shareholders 
into a go-ahead pic. those sup- 
porters envisaged prosperity, 
not the poor house. 

But Wray and company say 
thefr investment is spent They 
have put in CL 8m, of which £6m- 
£7m amounts to Bassett’s net 
transfer defidt A chunk went to 
pay off inherited debts, which 
puts Fbrest on a sound financial 
footing but does nothing in the 
currency that supporters regard 
as crucial - League points. 

At the dub's annual meeting 
last month, Wray, investor and 
property developer; showed he 


By Jon Culley 


Nottingham Fbrest 
Blackburn Rovers 


will not draw on his large per- 
sonal fortune to save Forest 
from the drop. And the bank, he 
says, is equally unwilling. 

It is not something Walker 
would tell an agm. But this is 
the trouble with football dubs 
run by a pic. especially one in- 
volving men in the City. Walk- 
er loves Blackburn. What does 
Wray feel for Fbrest? 

They scrapped as Bassett’s 
sides can on Saturday. But that 
alone will not be enough. They 
coped without Pierre van Hooij- 
donk. out with a sore calf, but 
could not withstand relentless 
Blackburn pressure through 
much of the second hall 

That apart, you could fault 
them for nothing. Neil Sliip- 
periey and Dougie Freedman 
fought for every ball Steve 
Stone was tireless and the oth- 
ers in midfield all put in their 
maximum. At the back. Jesper 
Mattson, for whom Bassett 
paid £300,000 to Halmstad of 
Sweden, caught the mood with 
a commanding display. 

Fbrest went ahead from a 
contentious penalty; and in- 
creased the lead through Freed- 
man’s seventh goal of the 
season, created by Shipperiey. 
But Blackburn, tentative at first, 
inevitably came back, although 
Fbrest were unlucky, having 

hopn within tn urhtngriistanrp nf 

their first Premiership win since 
29 August 

One more match without a 
win and Fbrest wDl equal a dub 
record. Next up: Manchester 
United, away. 

Goals: Chetrte (pen 22) 1-0: Fieedmjn 
(30) 2-0: Blake (49) 2-1 : Blake (90) 2-2 
Note) ogham Forest (4-4-2). Beasjnr 
Hjetde. Mansion, Chetde. Rogers (Arm- 
strong, 68|: Stone. Johnson, GcmmlU, Bart- 
Williams: Shipperiey (Hjiewood, 821. 
Freeaman Submenus not used: Crow- 
ley (gk). Bonalah. Darcheville 
Blackburn Rovers: i*-4-2J: Rian: Kenna. 
Henchoz. Da% Djmdson; Gillespie (John- 
son. 78). Sherwood, McWniay. Wikca (Duff. 
09): Sutton. Blake Sufesdnites not used: 
Davies. Peacock. Fetts (gk). 

Referee: S Lodge ( Barnsley I . 

Bookings. Forest- Beasant. Bari- 
WlfUams: Blackburn: Me Km lay. Honcho:. 
Sutton. Gillespie. 

Mao of the match: Shipperiey. 
Attendance: 22.013. 



Game Results 19/12/98. 

This Saturday there were 5 score draws: 


COVENTRY V DERBY 

121 LUCKY WINNERS 

NOTT’M F. V BLACKBURN 

THIS WEEK 

_ CRYSTAL P. V QPR 

Chesterfield v wigan 

READING V OLDHAM 

EACH SCOOP OVER 

£1,500 

'Matchmaker Adjudicated Results for postponed matches 

Home wins |0): NONE. 


Away wins (0): NONE. 

No scare draws (0): NONEL 


Score draws fO): NONE. 



121 LUCKY WINNERS THIS WEEK 
PAYOUTS FOR 5 SCORE DRAWS 
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Vato of tickets enteral this wee k: 

38% Of rates contributed to prizes. 

Tbfs week’s coatitoetJtm to feed canes £107,009. 

iJpERY WEEK IT’S A WHOLE NEW BALL GAME. 

To Clam war pnre. tallow tartiuatans on of your ticket. 

You rum be 16 or over Id ptey or claim a pnze. 

hi the Mfit of any discrepancy n the “*>«■ daw “ n,sined 
in me central computer system shad prevail. 


THIS WEEK'S MAJOR FIXTURES 


TODAY 

FOOTBALL: See panel, page 25 
RACING (National Hunt unless ne- 
ed): Kelso (First race 12.55): UNGHELD 
(An Weather Flat) (1.10). 


WEDNESDAY 
RUGBY UNION: Cheltenham and 
Oommr Cop Ibw rocmd second leg: 

Orrell v Sale (7.15). 


BOXING DAY 
FOOTBALL (3.0 unless stated): FA 
Carting Prosrfershfp: Arsenal v West 
Ham (12.0): Blackburn v Aston Villa 
(6.0): Coventry v Tottenham: Everton v 
Derby: Manchester Utd v Nottingham For- 
est; Middlesbrough v Liverpool; Newcastle 
v Leeds: SfteffWd Wednesday v Leices- 
ter. Southampton v Chelsea (12.0): Wim- 
bledon v Chariton (12.0). Natfcwurfde 
Football League rtrat Dtvtskxr Birm- 
ingham v Sheffield Utd: Bolton v Brad- 
ford City (1.0): Crewe v Bury: 
Huddersfield v Grimsby: Ipswich v 
Portsmouth: OtTord Utd v Crystal Palace: 
Queen's Park Rangers v Norwich (17.0): 
Stockport v Barnsley (1 .0); Swindon v 
Wolves; Tra nm cne v Sunderland: Watford 
* Bristol Oty (12.0): West Bromwich v 
Port Mile (1.6). Smooml DMrion: Black- 

S iol v Wigan (1.0); Bristol Rovers v 
lllnglum; Chesterfield v Oldham: Ful- 
ham v Colchester (12.0): Lincoln City v 


Macdesfiekt Lutor v Reading (1 2.0): J 
wall v Bournemouth (12.0): Notts Cc 


TOMORROW 
FOOTBALL (7.45 i 
BHndscrewn Shield Northern section 
lb* round: Notts County v ltd Oty End- 
sMgb Brokers Trophy second round: 
Famoorough v Rushden 0 Diamonds. 
RUGBY UNION: Hart Gilmore North 
Midlands Champ!— hfcc Shropshire v 
Greater Birmingham (7.30) (at Harper 
Adams CoUegeT. 

EQUESTRIANISM: Olympia Interna- 
tional Oiompionships (fcnsington. Lon- 
don!. 

RACING: Ludlow (12.*5): SOUTHWELL 
(All Weather Flat) (1.0). 


: MJII- 
i Coun- 
ty u Northampton; Stoke v Preston; 
Walsall v Wycombe: Wrtscham v Man- 
chester Oty (12.0); York v Burnley. Third 
Division: Barnet v Plymouth Argyle 
(1.30); Brighton v Brentford (12.0): 
Cambridge Utd v Rotherham; Cardiff v 
Shrewsbury (12.0); Exeter v Torquay 
(11.0); Halifax v Darlington (2.0): Hull v 
Chester. Leyton Orient w Swansea (1.30): 
Mansfield v Scarborough; Rochdale v 
Carlisle: Scunthorpe v Hartlepool: 
Southend v Peterborough (1.0). Football 
Coofaraoce: Doncaster v Leek: Fam- 
twraugh v Hayes: Forest Green w Vfeowil: 
nenngi “ ' " " " 


Kei 


| v Hednesford; Kidderminster u 


Hereford (12.30 V. Kmgscotuan v Woking 
(12.0); NontnvKh v Morecambe; South- 

S 3rc v Barrow: Stevenage v Rushden & 
lamonds; Telford u Cheltenham; Welling 
v Dover |12.0). S cott i sh Premier 
League: Dunfermline v Aberdeen: Kil- 
marnock v Hearts: Motherwell v Dundee 
Utd: Rangers v St Johnstone. 


TODAY’S 

NUMBER 


0 


The number of Chinese 
athletes who failed drug? 
tests at the Asian Games, 
which finished in Bangkok 
yesterday. They had 1 1 
failures at the last Games 
in Hiroshima in 1 994. 


Lome Hrst DMsIom Arfdne v Raich: 
Falkirk v Stranraen Greenock Morton v 
Clydebank: Hamilton v St Mirren; Hibern- 
ian u Ayr. Secood DMdoo: Alloa v Stir- 
ling: Arbroath v Forfar Clyde v Patrick. 
Third Division: Atoon Rovers v Queen’s 
Park; 8/echln v Montrose: Dumbarton v 
Berwick: Ross County v Cowdenbeath: 
Stenhousemuir v East Sorting. 

RUGBY LEAOUE: Prtandlf matches: 
FeathersConevCasileford (1 1.30); Leeds 
v Halifax (11.30). 

RUGBY UNION (3.0 unless stated): 
Allied Dan bar P r emier ship One: 

Leicester v Bedford; Richmond v London 
Irish. John Na t ional League One: 
BlrminghanVSollhuM v Nottingham 
(2.30)*, Harrogate v Wharfedate (Z.TS): 
Newbury v Lydney: Odey v Money 
(2.1 5); Rossi yn Park v Camberley (2.30). 
TWo North (2.30): Aspatria v Kendal: 
Stourbridge v Whitchurch. Thro Sooth 
(230): Olfton v Bridgwater; Plymouth 
v Redruth. Welch National League 
Premier Dhrtsfoa (2-30): CaerpWffy v 
Newport; Ebbw Wale v Aberauon: Neath 
v Llanelli; Pontypridd v Bridgend. First 
Dhrtsfoa (230): Abertiliery v New- 
bridge: Blackwood v UWIC: Dunvant v 
Tondu: Llandovery v Cross Keys; Ponry- 

K l v Bonymaen. Rumimv South Wales 
Ice: Tredegar v Merthyr; Treorchy v 
Maesteg. Ang lo W e ls h rrleadBes: 
Northampton v Cardiff; Swansea v Bath 
(2.30). Bask oF Scotland Border 
League (23): Gala v Melrose; Hawick 
v Peebles: Jed- Forest v Kelso. 

RACING: Kempeon (1 2.40): Ayr (1 2.551: 
Hereford (12.25): Huntingdon (1.0): 
Market Rasen (1230); Newton Abbot 
(1.20): Sedgeneld (1.0); Wetherby 
(12.45): Wlncanren (1.0); Wolverhamp- 
ton (All Weather Flat) (1 JO). 


SUNDAY 
FOOTBALL: Scottish Premier 


Dundee w Celtic (6.05). Scotch 
ball League Socood DMsioa: East Rfe 
v Inverness Caledonian Thistle (3.0); 
Queen of the South v Livingston (3.0). 
RUGBY UNION: Jovrson National 
League IWo South: Barking v Tabard 


TOMORROW 

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Monday 21 December 1998 




SPORT 




TIPSTER EDMONDSON DOES IT AGAIN P23 # THE WORLD COP DISCARD S P2Q 



Football: The 17th dismissal since Wenger took charge mars Gunners’ advance into title contention Kelly: ‘I 

Arsenal’s assault on summit interest 

of FA 9 


By Steve tongue 

Arsenal 
Leeds United 


ARSENAL yesterday offered an 
alternative view to their own 
manag er’s recent pessimistic 
prognostications by defeating 
the Premiership's form team 
and joining them in the top six. 

A year to the week after his 
charges began an unbeaten 
run from a less promising po- 
sition than their current one, 
which lasted four months and 
earned them the champi- 
onship. Arsene Wenger has 
been casting doubts on their 
chances of finishing in die top 
three to earn another shot at 
the Champions' League. As 
David O'Leary, unlucky to lose 
by two goals on his return to 
Highbury for the first time as 
a fully fledged manager put it 
“Perhaps he's superstitious 
and has to say the same thing 
every year He's very good with 
words." 

Whether or not Wenger and 
his fellow countrymen know the 
word kidology, they are learn' 
ing to practise it The knack of 
remaining on the right side of 
English referees is proving 
more elusive; yesterday Gilles 
Grimandi became the fifth Ar- 
senal player sent off this season 
- and the 17th since Wenger 
took over two years ago - when 
he pushed his head into Alan 
Smith's face only 15 minutes 
after coming on as a substitute. 

By that time, just before the 
finish. Arsenal were in control 
for the first time. Even at 2-0 
early in the second ball they 
looked vulnerable to Lee 
Bowyer’s vigorous industry 
and the fierce shooting of 
Jimmy Floyd Hasseibaink. who 
quickly halved the deficit Only 
when Dennis Bergkamp. hav- 
ing scored the first goal, had 
contributed his second assist of 
the game by sending the out- 
standing Emmanuel Petit 
through were the champions in 
the clean 

They have now moved within 
four points of the joint leaders, 
.Aston Villa, who play at Charlton 
tonight Arsenal also vfeit The Val- 
iev - next week, after entertaining 
West Ham, and a successful 
Christmas in the capital would set 
them up for a happy new year 

“It's more important at the 
moment that we concentrate on 
the way we play before speaking 
of the title," Wenger said. “We 
have to be realistic. After a few 
games, we’ll see where we 
stand." 

He admitted to being con- 



Dennjs Bergkamp scores Arsenal’s first goal in their defeat of Leeds United at Highbury yesterday. The two teams are now equal on points 


cemed early on at the way 
Bovyer and David Hopidn were 
man-marking Petit and Patrick 
Vieira in the centre of midfield, 
describing Bowyer as “a spe- 
cialist at upsetting people". Al- 
though no player on the pitch 
was old enough to remember the 
physical battles between the 
two dubs 30 years age. there 
seemed to be some keen to re- 
enact them: Vieira had downed 
Hasseibaink painfully within 20 
seconds and the young Leeds 


defender Jonathan Woodgate 
was booked before two minutes 
had been played. 

Woodgate was used as one of 
three centre-halves as O'Leary 
changed his system to com- 
pensate for the loss of Lucas 
Radebe and David Batty. “Td 
love to have come here with the 
full manly, a hill team,” he said. 
Those who were chosen some- 
times seemed to be doing then- 
own choreography of a move 
more associated with Arsenal, 


stepping out in a sh-sight line 
with arms raised. 

It let them down for two of the 
three goals, starting in the 28th 
minute. David Hopkin had just 
side-footed feebly wide at the 
other end when Petit found 
Nicolas Anelka for a flicked 
header Anelka was probably 
just offside, but the flag, unlike 
the defenders’ arms, stayed 
down and Bergkamp ran on to 
beat Nigel Martyn. 

Cleverly drifting slightly 


deeper to elude the markers, 
Bergkamp went on to give his 
most influential performance 
for a while. Eight minutes into 
the second half he fed Vieira, 
who slid past Woodgate and 
scored his first goal of the sea- 
son, low in the cornet 
Leeds deserved better and 
Hasseibaink thundered them 
back into contention as Harry 
Kewefl rolled back an inviting 
pass following another thrust by 
Bowyer But as the game became 


even mare open. Arsenal finished 
the stronger Marc Overmars 
side-footed straight at Martyn 
and Anelka pulled a shot wide 
be&reNelsari Vivas set upadas- 
sic cimter-attat&by wimmgthe 
ball and feeding it to Bergkamp 
on the left A delicious pass was 
met by Petit’s fine finish remi- 
niscent of his coup de grtce in 
the Wbrid Cup final 

“TheyTl be there at the finish, 

don't worry about that” said 
O’Leary of his former dub. His 


by Paved Anderson 

graham KELLY the former 
Football Association chief ex- 
ecutive, stands by his decision 
to give the FA of Wales the 
£3 .2m grant which cost him 
his job. Kelly insists he acted in 
the best interests of the FA. and 
the campaign to stage the 2008 
World Cup. 

He admits that one reason 
for helping file FAW was to se- 
cure their support for the bid of 
the FA ^harrrriaTi l Keith Wise- 
man, to be Britain’s Fife vice- . 
president, but claimed it was 9 
not a bribe. 

“1 went into it with very 
good intentions to seek to 
strengthen England's position ... 
in world football generally and 
in connection with the World 
Cup campaign,” he told BBC 
Radio Five live. 

Wiseman, himself in peril 
after the FA’s executive com- 
mittee passed a vote of no con- 
fidence m him for his part in the 
affair, fias claimed that leading 
figures in the game wanted 
Kelly out 

“Several people had been 
after Graham for some time,” 
he alleged. “I'm not going to 
name names but various indi- ^ 
viduals at the top of the pro-:* 
fessional game wanted' 
someone in place prepared to 
act as they wanted" 

In spite of the vote of no con- 
fidence, Wiseman las rrfused to 
gp and has instead vowed tofight 
to dear his name. His fate will 
be decided by the foU FA Coun- 
cil when it meets on 4 January 

“As for myself I have done 
nothing wrong,” Wiseman said. 

“I was acting in the FA's best in- 
terests and following accepted 


Ben Duffy 


new one may be slightly further 
away but if they keep improving, 
not by much. 

Goals Bqg ue np (28) 1-OE Vieira (53) 2-0; HSs- 
sribaii* (65) 2-1; Betir (82) 3-1. 

Annul |W). Mamkwen Dim. BouJd, Ke- 
«wi, Vivas; Ljingbtrg (Grimaldi. 72). Vieira. 
Reft. Overmars (Wren. 87); Bergump, AneL 
fca Sotsdtxaes hoc «cfc Boa Atone; Mendez. 
LuMcISk). 

LwdsTMced 0-5-21 Martyn: Haatand. Mote- 
naar (Wethera#. M). WoodgaoK Halle. Bowyec 
Hopkin. Granvffle (Stafth. 80). Hate Kewefl. 
HasseB)alnV.SAstiBUes not toed: Sharpe. 
WJjrhanJ. Robinson (ek|. 

R efe r * *; P CwrtrJh |FM»d). 

Sendbg-off: Arsenal GrimarvE Boated. 
Anonte \Mra. Bergkanp leads: Woodgue, 
Hopkin. Hate. 

of mattfc Petit. 

Attendance- 38.025. 


dear my name of any hint of im* 
propriety. 

“The process followed to re- 
move me was uncoastitutionaL 
The full FA council is the only 
body that has the right to re- 
move the chairman. I intend to 
put the matter entirely in their 
hands.” he added 

Wiseman admitted that re- 
cent events had been a huge 
straia “The past few days have 
been horrendous for my vP’fe 
and family,” be said W 

“I haven't been able to live in 
my own house and have been 
staying with friends. I’ve never 
had the remotest professional 
problem of any kind and to 
have that reputation put at risk 
by football issues is difficult to 
cope with.” 


N o_3799 Monday 21 December 



10 


ACROSS 

Route for Brits in NY 
area? Sent method to fol- 
low it (6,7) 

Should one beam at 

; motorists? (5,4) 


THE MONDAY CROSSWORD 

fay Esau 


(5) 

24 What pilot may do, about 
to be mapped by European 
MiG? (5) 

25 Ah! Topical cook suggest- 
ing thin sausage (9) 

26 Route barred for pedestri- 
ans' safety (5J8> 

DOWN 
Road subject to 
favourable result of test 
(9) 

living in the distant past 

like some peers? (5) 

A certain Carol’s main 
man given spiritual guid- 
ance (7) 

What reporter may claim 
to have profound effect (7) 
Thwart poor actors at- 
tempting to shed years (9) 
Take over part of 
Afghanistan next? (5) 
Panting illegally? That’s 
fine by me! (7,6) 

Rested certain acts, to 
make others behave? 
(3,43,3) 


15 



J-turn—fonn of in- 
•<5) 

/s fighting to keep 
hold of love (5) 

13 Subject to excessive de- 
mands, that’s dear-cut (9) 

14 One graduate pal seen in 


Muslim leader's office (7) 

16 Runner with promise re- 
called venue of failures 
(43) 

18 Old laundry facility going 
west- however; Henxv no- v 
ticed Ci) iq 

20 Become breathless, taking 3 
in “mature" kind of 

show! (7) „ n 

21 I may mend comfy chairs 

for a convalescent (9) w 
23 8’s responsibility a 

(among others) said to be 23 


ing in one type ot rev- 
enue? (9) 

Why to discipline Aussie 
drivers in convoy (45) 
Cockney's slant, influ- 
enced by a certain de- 
ment? (7) 

Left most of religious art- 
work in a colonnade (7) 
Team working on English 
railway interchange (5) 
They do global tours (5) 


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Atherton at the double 
as Hick forces the pace 


ONLY THREE hours’ play 
were possible cm the second day 
in Hobart as rain and drizzle 
swept in off the southern ocean. 
Yet if one day is enough to 
know everything, a theory once 
held by Fyodor Dostoevsky, a 
fraction is certainly enough to 
confirm long-held beliefs about 
Michael Atherton and Graeme 
Hick, who scored double and 
single centuries respectively. 

The first thing that must be 
said is that the strike power of 
an Australian XI who were 
missing three front-line bowlers 
was not heavy-duty But if Hie* 
merely reinforced the view that 
he is a fiat-track bully by mar- 
mafising the back-up bowlers to 
all parts of the ground and be- 
yond, the fact that Atherton 
could not change gear in his 
chanceless and unbeaten 210 
was equally corroborative. 

In contrast to Hick, who 
tends to dominate a substan- 
dard attack totally, Atherton 
has not the means to ride 
roughshod over inferior bowl- 
ing. A bats man with a mid-size 
array of shots, Atherton’s 
power comes not from his 
weight of stroke, which relies on 
timing anyway, but from his 
mental strength. 

Total concentration is all he 
knows and it is the main reason 
why there is such a disparity be- 
tween his performances for 
England and Lancashire. Un- 
like some, he cannot simply 


CRICKET 


BY DEREK PRINGLE 
in Hobart 

England 469-6 dec 
Australian XI 30-0 

drop a level and still compete 
favourably, which is why his 483- 
minute innings here, sans Paul 
Refffel and co, stiH had a decent 
market value, something that 
could not immediately be said 
of Hick’s run-a-ball 125. 

Some similarities can be 
drawn, howevec and both need- 
ed runs, though whether Hick 
can draw as much succour 
from the occasion as the acting 
captain will soon be tested on 
Boxing Day at the MCG. 

Atherton, whose first double 
century this was, relishes his 
reputation for being perverse 
and the milestone came with an 
ungainly hack back over the 
bowler’s head. Prior to that, and 
apart from some delightful 
cover-driven fours off Bren don 


Julian, he had slowed to a crawl 
as he approached his previous 
career-best score of 199, made 
against Durham at Gateshead 
in 1992. In fed, in the time it took 
him to go from 194 to 198, Hick 
advanced his own score from 42 
to 96 in a flurry of big hitting. 

There was geographic in- 
terest in his feat, too. and there 
cannot be many grounds fur- 
ther apart than Gateshead and 
the BeSerive Oval in Hobart, on 
which to registeryour two high- 
est first-class scores. It was a 
distance Hick dearly tried to 
cover as he launched Michael 
Sevan’s left -arm wrist spin for 
huge successive sixes. 

Dropped at midwicket by 
Stuart Law when he was 94, the 
brutality of Hick’s second fifty, 
which took 28 balls, was at 
odds with the first, which was 
cautious and subdued and took 
93. Perhaps Hick was trying to 
prove a point by showing Ather- 
ton he can whack it when he 
wants to: remember it was 
Atherton who declared on Hick 


HOBART SCOREBOARD 


Second day. England won toss 
ENGLAND - First Innings 

Owerntglu- i« 5 

*M A AUwrron not out 

G A Hick c sub b Bevan 

B C Hdliooke c Gilchrist b Julian 
tw K Heg s c sub b Bevan . . . 

Gum (165. m2. nb6) 

%ul (Nr 6 dec. 126.1 even) 

Fell: 1-57. 2-125. 3-265. *-*60. 5-4A0. 
6-469. 

DW riot bat: O 6 CotV A J Tudor. ARC 
Fraser. P M Such 

Bowline: Iwsprorrlcz 18 3-2-67-0 B?if. 
* el V3-A-4-0: Julian 32-6-99-1. Blewetl 


» TO 
125 

.. 0 
...A 

.13 

*69 


asr* a-’-ws'-s: 

AUSTRALIA XI - Ant lonjp— 

M T u Elliott nor out . .. ^ 

■j S BSewett not out 

BWM l»bz. nbsi C 

TS»*al (tar 0. 1 1 overs') ...l jn 

Td bat : c J Richards. D S Lehmann S 
Law. M G Sevan. 1 A r Gllchnsi p p 'cJLP 
rOB^P Julian. M S Ka£SSS.G R pSL 

ru0w &3 ‘ 1 2-0: 
Umpires: 5 G Davies and P Parser, 


.14 

11 

.5 


Fraser 


in Sydney four years ago, when 
the batsman was on 98. 

At one stage, ffick was treat- 
ing the bowling as be might in 
a benefit match, which was 
ironic considering that one of 
the main reasons for the Aussie 
selectors picking a strong side 
was to make a point about the 
relative weakness of county 
opposition encountered when 
other countries tour England. 

But if many were quietV" 
smug at the way Australia’s at- 
tempt to humiliate England 
further backfired, a glimpse of 
why they generally lord it over 
us came from one of the many 
substitute fielders, Nathan 
Wfebb. Just 17, he fielded su- 
perbly, taking two catches in the 
deep including the wicket of 
Hick, whose attempt at anoth- 
er six ended when be held a dif- 
ficult, swirling catch at kmg-off 

If it is churlish to suggest that 
the equivalent ability does not 
exist in Errand, it would be hard 
to imagine a 17-year-old looking 
quite at home as Webb did. Ben 
Hollioake, four years older than 
him, certainty did not, the Sur- 
rey all-rounder recording his 
second duck in four days. 

Coming in to replace Hick, 

Hoflioake edged his first ball to 
the wicketkeeper, after Julian 
banged it in short If there v a^ 
a thought among the selects J 
that he might possibly bat at 
seven in the next Test it wffl 
surely have been shelved 









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in 


Comment • Features • arts • Listings • television 




Diana was trash, 
homosexuality is an 


illness, love’s a fallacy: 


Quentin Crisp is 


approaching his 


naughty 90th birthday, 


but he’s lost none 


of his sauce 


Old 

Spice 


MBMiMDg o survive at all was an adven- 
W ■ ^turaTbreacholdagewasarnir- 
” H "acle." So wrote Quentin Crisp in 

■ his autobiography 30 years ago. 

■ when he was not even an old- 

H age pensioner. What excJama- 

■ tory words are left to describe 

■ the fact that this Christmas 

riflba Day Quentin Crisp will not only 

be 90 years old, but will open that ni g ht in a new 
one-man show on Broadway? Mind-boggling? Un- 
natural? Creepy? Or does it simply bear out his be 
lief that there is no such thing as long-term bad hick? 

Quentin Crisp was only 58 years old when I first 
met him in a West End cafe, but he came across 
. even then as a figure of faded, cobwebby grandeur 
already making jokes about being old, saying, “At 
the end of the run, you can overact outrageously" 

. I remember he wore silver sandals with high 
. . heels, women's slacks and a great deal of make-up. 

. His pale-blue dyed hair was piled up into those star- 
■ •• f j- ^ily bouffant waves that innumerable feature writ- 
- Wwere soon to struggle to describe. His face looked 
both male and female, noble and ignoble, depraved 
and imperious. In recent times, I have spotted in 
the ageing Baroness Thatcher some of Quentin 
Crisp's outrageous haughtiness. 

By the time I met him, Quentin Crisp had already 
had an extraordinary existence. The precise details 
of his self-inflicted martyrdom slowly became ap- 
parent. Born the wettest of weaklings, he had been 
an impossible child and a monstrous show- oil Per- 
petually suicidal and ill-equipped for living, he was 
unemployable, unfit even to make tea - “I would have 
v raadi^jt badly," he says. 

early twenties, he worked briefly as a male 
prostitute, but was no good at this either Then, sud- 
denly, he took several steps over the brink and be- 
came a self-evident homosexual, "a terrible painted 
figure prancing the streets", who was kicked, spat 
at and beaten up. “Nothing can describe the hatred 
and the terror and the trouble that I caused," be 
later told one of his many interviewers. 

The bedsitter in Beaufort Street Chelsea, where 
Quentin had lived since the summer of 1940, was a 
revelation. His joke about the dust not getting any 
•* worse after a few years has long since found its way 
into various dictionaries of quotations. The poet 
Philip O’Connor spake of “that infernal kitchen" and 
Crisp himself boasted that his home was “a kind of 
curtain-raiser for The Rocky Horror Shour". It was 
.. iat he lived off a food substitute called Com- 

i tail, recharged his batteries and, in his own 
words, was his “horrible self". 

Bare-footed and dad in a dressing gown shiny 
with grease, which barely covered his buttocks, he 
also welcomed all callers with great zest “Rush in. 
sit down," he might say, then; “Flop about on the 
bed." Visitors might be offered “a cup of pale grey 
coffee" or "some old toast". 

I found Quentin was happy to talk for hours there, 
elevating or demoting his circle of acquaintances 
to a sort of villa gey gentility or obscurity by never 
using their first names. He talked about a certain 
Mr Flipcroft, a Miss Lumley “who can do no 
wrong", a Miss Miller “who has the nerve to teach 
art appreciation". Whenever I left, Quentin would 
run down the stairs like a 19-year-old, turn on the 
hall light and bid me: “Call again. Incessantly.” These 
Wf*»jcatcb -phrases he used for everybody. Over the 
- utzTLi years I called on Quentin Crisp frequently, 
if not incessantly and watched as he became famous. 

His first step into the limeli gh t came with the pub- 
lication in 1968 erf his autobiography; The Naked Civil 
Servant. This was widely praised and reviewed, 
going briefly into the bestseller list, but it did not 
have any effect on his life, other than producing a 
regular stream of anonymous telephone calls - his 
number has always been listed -which be described 
with some relish as “appointments with fear". 

When the film of his book was broadcast in De- 
cember 1975, with John Hurt requiring five differ- 
ent wigs to play the title role, these calls became 
mare urgent Almost overnight Quentin Crisp be- 
came a cult figure, “the mother superior of homo- 
sexuality 1 ' and much else besides. Taxi drivers who 
had once refused to carry him now asked for his au- 
tograph. Quentin took this all very calmly - “I ex- 
pect to be forgotten soon," he told me. No such luck. 

In January 1978. Quentin Crisp opened in his one- 
man show at the Duke of York's Theatre in London, 
lecturing his packed audience about style with only 
a bentwood chair and a hatstand for company on 



•s' 


stage. After great success, the show transferred to 
the Ambassador's Theatre. One person asked for 
their money back. Quentin paid up immediately. 

Anyway, he now had other plans. “1 can't go on 
appearing at the Ambassador’s forever” he mut- 
tered, perhaps fearing a run of Mousetrap pro- 
portions. The previous autumn, he had not only been 
abroad for the first time in his life, he had been to 
New York, where The Naked Civil Servant had been 
shown on television. He now wanted to live there 
for ever - “In America, everyone is your friend". At 
the age of 72, he left England for good, acquiring 
the room on Manhattan's Lower East Side where 
he has now lived for 17 long, dark years. 

I have seen little of him during this period, but 
have occasionally spoken to him on the telephone, 
which he still answers with the long drawn-out 
words, “Oh - yes?" instead of “Hello?" 

In 1991, he wrote to me saying. “I am now so old 
that I spend half my time asleep”, but this has ac- 
tually been a time of great ind ustry and expansion. 
Quentin Crisp has appeared frequently on televi- 
sion. He has done his one-man show across Amer- 
ica. He has lectured on four cruise ships and 
appeared in cinema adverts for Calvin Klein per- 
fume and Levi’s jeans. He played Elizabeth the First 
in SaDv Potter's film of Virginia Woolf's Orlando with 
remarkable tenderness and restraint. 

Last month, I telephoned him at his room on East 
3rd Street and we arranged to meet Somewhat dis- 
concerted by a recent photograph in which the be- 


hatted Mr Crisp looked like a little old witch, I did 
not know what to expect. What do 89-year-old men 
look like? Would 1 find a stick insect? 

In the event it was his feet and legs that I saw 
first as he descended the stairs of his building to 
let me in. Fbr a worrying moment I thought that 
Quentin Crisp, the great stylist had graduated to 
the leisure-wear and trainers beloved by octoge- 
narians across the western world. But no - Quentin 
was properly dressed in grey flannels and a tailored 
grey worsted jacket that I later discovered had been 
given to him fly the supermodel Lauren Hutton. He 

BY ANDREW BARROW 


was smaller; portlier; but his great beehive of back- 
combed white hair was as impressive as even 
His room knocks his old place in Beaufort Street 
into a cocked hat It's smaller to start with and, in- 
stead of having windows looking on to a leafy Lon- 
don street there is only the darkened well of the 
building to contemplate. It is more like a disused 
workshop than a bedroom, clogged with possessions, 
coated with grime. Bottles of make-up. fixative, med- 
icine and, thank God, a bottle of champagne, hog 
the floor along with a discarded shirt 

Quentin Crisp once said of the dirt in his Lon- 
don room: “It’s just a question of keeping your 
nerve, " To survivE in his current abode must require 
nerves of steel iron and flint And be also has to 


cope with the horrified reactions of friends who do 
not understand his lifestyle. Three times the police 
have been called, and once he was dragged off to 
hospital though there was nothing wrong with him. 

Indeed, as Quentin settled on the bed and I took 
the only chair, so dose to him that our knees kept 
touching. I reflected that he looks extraordinarily 
well. He wears less make-up than in the past He 
has the actor’s ability to turn it on. His gestures are 
deft and unhesitant His head twists attentively and 
his voice is as full-throated as ever. 

And so are his views. He continues to hate Oscar 
Wilde and Visconti's films, especially Death in 
Venice. His recent statement that Princess Diana 
was “trash” and “got what she deserved" generated 
letters telling him he was “a bitter lonely old queen”. 

Quentin's chilly relationship with the gay com- 
munity is another thorny and long-standing issue. 
He looks upon homosexuality as an illness and ho- 
mosexuals as an inferior breed. Some time ago, he 
upset a Chicago audience by saying that the "ob- 
session" with Aids was a “fad". In America, he says, 
he has angered gay people but been accepted by 
“Teal" people. “And anyway" he adds with some be- 
musement, “it’s now been explained tome that I'm 
not a homosexual. I'm a trans-something." 

Quentin Crisp has been described as “idly un- 
sentimental". On stage and in private, he rarely says 
the word ’ love” without giving it a mocking twang. 
Most people, he claims, are in perpetual torment 
about their relationships. He isn't. For him the idea 


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of having a best friend or any kind of hierarchy of 
friendship has always been abhorrent 2 have 
known Quentin Crisp for 32 years but I do not feel 
any closer to him, or less intimate, than when we 
first met “Love of everybody” is one of his abiding 
aims. “If love means anything at ail it means ex- 
tending your hand to the unlovable.’’ he says, giv- 
ing an eerie significance to the fact that his birthday 
falls on the same day as the founder of the Christ- 
ian religion. I did not ask him about the link, but I 
had not been long in his Lower East Side room be- 
fore he was quoting from Saint Tteresa of Avila: “We 
must treat all people as at least better than our- 
selves." Crisp's own blueprint for happiness is never 
to envy the lot of other people. 

On 25 December, Quentin Crisp steps on to the 
stage of the Intar theatre on 42nd Street and, for 
the following six weeks, will “cast about for some- 
thing to make the audience squeak”. He will tell them 
how to be happy. He will also, no doubt, talk about 
death. His own death. He has been talking about 
his death since I first met him. “When it all ends,” 
he'd say, Til get into my coffin and I’ll sleep.” Sui- 
cide has always attracted him - “The last graceful 
flourish of someone whose style has been completely 
mastered" - but it might not proride the “signifi- 
cant death" he yearns for. Last month, he declared, 
“It would be nice to be murdered". Whatever one 
makes of this claim, it would provide another 
spooky connection with his fellow birthday boy. 

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TYu. inAmendeni 21 December 1998 




Dealing with Iraq 

Sin Your editorial <18 December) 
poses the question, “How else do 
we deal with this dictator?'’ 

Hasn't history taught us that the 
very best way to undermine 
dictatorships is to build as many 
links as we can with such 
countries, not dose them down as 
we have done with Iraq? This has 
helped keep Saddam in power. 

The Berlin wall was not only to 
keep people in but ideas out We 
need to repair the damage with 
Iraq, both physical but also 
psychological Drop the sanctions 
and invade the country with our 
influence; win the people over with 
contact with the West on all levels; 
not with bombs. 

Such contact would be assisted 
by free trade and open borders and 
would be the greatest threat that 
Saddam could face. 

In the short term, allow the 
Arab nations, with appropriate 
assistance (that they should and 
can pay for), to contain Iraq. We 
have enough needs at home on 
which to use the resources 
expended on dama gin g Iraq. 
BOBGOODALL 
St Albans, Hertfordshire 

Sir Supporters of the air strikes on 
Iraq who demand that opponents 
spell out their “alternative'' to 
bombing have missed the point of 
the whole debate. 

First, it is not for the 
governments of the United States 
and Britain to decide the best way 
to “deal with" Saddam Hussein. 
These governments have not been 
elected global policemen by the 
peoples of the world. Their 
mandate for military action in the 
Middle East rests solely on 
imperial presumption. 

Second, Iraq is not the only 
country with the capability of 
manufacturing weapons of mass 
destruction, nor is it the only 
country ruled by a repressive 
dictatorship, nor is it the only 
country currently in violation of UN 
resolutions. The very people who 
now tell us there is no alternative 
to bombing are the same ones who 
throw up their hands in impotence 
when confronted with violations of 
UN resolutions by Israel In 
regard to the Palestinians, by 
UN7TA in Angola and by Indonesia 
in East Timor. 

Third, there is ample reason to 
believe that the ‘‘problem" which 
we are told we must deal with is in 
fact a contrived pretext for military 
action. Former chief UN weapons 
inspector Scott Ritter has been 
quoted as saying, “What Richard 
Butler did last week with the 
inspections was a set up. ... This 
was designed to generate a conflict 
that would justify a bombing." 
UKEMARQUSEE 
London Nl 

Sir: \bur report <12 December) 
about the way the sanctions on Iraq 
enable Saddam Hussein to 
maintain control over his people 
highlights one aspect of the 
adverse effects of the sanctions. 
More generally, sanctions, which 
have caused the death of between 
half a million and a million people 
according to informed sources, 
enable Saddam Hussein to portray 
the West as the enemies of the Iraqi 
people, strengthening his hold on 
the country. We believe that 
sanctions should be ended and the 
West should flood Iraq with food 
and medicines. As well as reducing 
the appalling suffering, this could 
reduce Saddam's grip on Iraq. 

Most people recognise that it is 
never going to be possible to 
eliminate all weapons of mass 
destruction by technical means 
and inspection alone. Thus it is 
important to reduce the causes of 
conflict. Ending the sanctions 
would help to reduce the potential 
for hatred of the West by the Iraqis 
and other Arab and Muslim 
peoples. Whereas a massive 
military attack on Iraq could 
destabilise the Middle East, we 
believe a positive approach to 
the Iraqi people could help 
bring stability. 

MARTIN QUICK 
Chair 

Architects and Engineers for 
Social Responsibility 
Stroud, Gloucestershire 


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Sir America is doing through the 
thin veil of the UN what it has done 
to Cuba and Vietnam over the last 
30 years. If it cannot win a war in a 
conventional manner (because it 
never “broke" Iraq), it will 
economically suppress that 
country indefinitely. 

If it wants to use weapons of 
mass destruction as an excuse, 
why doesn't it bomb Pakistan, 

India or China? 

DrP CONNOLLY 
Halstead, Essex 

Sin The 1997 “Islamophobia 
Report" of the Runnyrnede Thist 
read in part; “At the time of the 1991 
GulfWar West Yorkshire police 
noted a 100-per-cent increase in 
racist attacks in Bradford, and a 58- 
per-cent increase in West 
Yorkshire as a whole." 

The pattern has been repeated 
at every conflict since. It does not 
seem to matter to racists that 
Britons whose families originate in 
south Asia (or even Iraq) have no 
connection with the ruling clique 
in Iraq. In fact some of those 
attacked in Bradford were Hindus, 
and not Muslims. Already, three 
UK mosques have been attacked 
in the last two days. 

We hope journalists, as well as 
extremists among British Muslims 
and elsewhere, will not inflame 
people of violence to attack Asians, 
especially Muslims, in this country. 
Dr RICHARD STONE 
Chair Runnyrnede Commission 
Rabbi ABRAHAM LEVY 
Afaimonides Fbundafion 
KHAWAR QURESEB 
Imam Dr ABDULJALIL SAJID 
Calamus Foundation 
London Wl 


Tam be ginning to think that the 

cause of the malaise at the BBC is 
that its corporate thinking is 
dominated by fear The superficial 
fear is about a “ratings war"; but 
there may be a deeper fear which its 
treatment of religion symbolises. 
Perhaps it no longer has the 
confidence to deal with religious 
concepts of death or eternity or 
mercy or human m eaning, ft seems 
bewildered not only about religious 
matters but also about its own 
corporate purpose. 

The BBC is a very significant 
part of our national life and needs 
to discover whatthe potential and 
purpose of public sendee 
broadcasting should be in the new 
nuUennium. Preoccupation with 
ratings and marginalisation of 
religion are the signs that 
confidence is seriously lacking. 

When will the necessary public 
debate begin? 

CHRISTOPHER St ALBANS 
(The Right Rev Christopher 
Herbert, Bishop of St Albans) 

St Albans, Hertfordshire 


Sir: Andreas Whittam Smith's 
apology for current BBC editorial 
policy as it affects the churches 
(Comment, 14 December) misses 
the point The issue is not how to 
cater for paid-up parish members. 
They have accepted the physical 
inconvenience of live attendance 
at church. What is missing on 
Christmas Day, and what is 
reduced at many other times, is 
religion and related concerns as 
an ingredient in the cultural diet of 
people for whom belonging to 
Christian institutions is of doubtful 
relevance- but who like to retain a 
vestigial sympathy and link. 

Incarnation - god as man, man 
as god - is a dramatic idea. A 
television service to mark the 
idea on the day which is still 
called Christmas should not 
be in question. 

The point isn’t “selling" 
Christianity, or pushing messages. 
Christianity in Britain is close to 
the core traditions of the people. 
But folk memory needs to be 
refreshed - and associated with 


various aspects of culture and 
thought in ways that television and 
radio can manage effectively and 
helpfully. It is a pity religion has 
been pushed into a ghetto by those 
in charge of the media. 
Christianity does not need vet 
more pulpits to preach to the 
converted. That is what 
“Christian" television and radio 
stations do. It is the general diet 
which needs appropriate religious 
ingredients to prevent it becoming 
even more impoverished 
Why do enormous numbers of 
non-Christian or vaguely Christian 
parents opt to send their children 
to “church" schools? What that 
means is ign ored b y the BBC. 

TOM SUTCLIFFE 
London SW16 

Software that is PC 

Sin The main thrust of Eva 
Pascoe’s article about open source 
software 'Network. 14 December) 
appears to be a sort of anti- 
Microsoft crusade. Proponents of 


TV religion 


Sir. Recently I wrote to you about 
the complete lack of Christmas Day 
worship on BBC television (letter; 

12 December). I seem to have 
touched a nerve, for the story has 
received considerable coverage in 
national newspapers and on radio 
and television. The only response I 
have had from the BBC so far has 
been a “with compliments" slip. 


Sin Having just returned from 
a month's visit to Nigeria and 
having seen for myself the 
tragic mess that that once 
prosperous country has been 
reduced to by its military 
dictators, I believe it would be 
an act of wanton cruelty to 
deport Ben James there 
(“Banker loses his battle to 
stay", 15 December). After his 
long residency in Britain, a 
country he now sees as his own 
and to which he has 
contributed much through his 
business activities, for the 
Court of Appeal to treat him as 
if be were guilty of criminality 
is utterly distasteful. 

VINCENT F BUTLER 
Edinburgh 

Sin The omission of the 
discovery of penicillin from the 
New Millennium Experience 
Company's highlights of the 
last 1,000 years seems 
incredible (“Millennium 


IN BRIEF 


defined by a sandwich’', 

17 December). Alexander 
Fleming’s discovery and its 
development by Howard 
Florey and Ernst Chain 
revolutionised medicine and 
affected for the better the lives 
of every one of us. It began the 
antibiotic age in medicine 
which has saved countless 
lives. It is a sad reflection on 
those organising the 
millennium celebrations that 
they should rate the sandwich 
a higher achievement. 

KEVIN BROWN 

Trust Archivist and Curator 

Alexander Fleming Laboratory 

Museum 

London W2 

Sir: Dr Hillman asserts that 
there is no substitute fora living 
organism in the production of 


mono-clonal antibodies (letter: 

15 December). In the UK. the 
mouse was the animal almost 
invariably used for this purpose. 
However, in a November 1997 
statement, the government 
announced that the use of mice 
to produce mono-clonal 
antibodies would no longer be 
allowed unless exceptional 
justification could be provided. 
In vitro methods of production 
are to be used instead. 
CHRISTINE ORR 

British Union for the Abolition cf 

Vivisection 

London N7 

Sir May I add to Donald 
Fb reman's list of the 
achievements of the Duke of 
Cambridge (letter: 

16 December)? He was so 
shocked by the playing of 
military bands that he founded 
the School of Army Music. 
CAROLYN BECKINGHAM 
Lewes. East Sussex 


the Linux operating system (and 
for that matter Apple Mac users) 
seem to be almost fanatical in their 
devotion. There is a certain cachet 
in using a product which is non- 
mainstream. You become the new 
techno -warrior; and not some 
Redmond done. 

The main benefits touted by Ms 
Rascoe for using open source 
software appear to be that it is a 
Bill Gates-free desktop; that the 
“guys from Redmond" won't get 
their “bounty”: that Microsoft is 
operating a monopoly from which 
only cyber-heroes such as the 
comic-reading ex-hacker 
Jamie Zo vinsky, and other 
“legends" can save us. 

This all misses the point People 
running mission-critical 
applications in heterogeneous 
environments buy products which 
are based on standards and will 
integrate well with their existing 
products: which will scale well and 
support a larger user base; which 
are reliable sued for which there is 
a high level of skills available to 
provide support 

The main problem with Linux is 
just that people do modify it There 
is no standard version. Developers 
need to produce different versions 
of their applications - one for 
Linux on a Sun, one for the PC 
version and so on. 

There is nothing wrong with 
people developing code and 
distributing it to their friends, 
colleagues and like-minded folk on 
the Net and, in all likelihood, this 
will have a positive effect on the 
industry" but to state that all such 
software is inherently better than 
anything developed by the evil 
empire in Redmond is nonsense. 

Even if open source software 
were technically better, which in 
the case of Linux is highly 
debatable, a product with wider 
acceptance is more important to 
corporate users. History is littered 
with products which were 
arguably better: but never took off 
Anyone got any Betamax movies 
I can borrow? 

ANDREW WARREN 
Castle Douglas, Dumfries and 
Go lloway 


Teen mums at risk 

Sir: Yasmin Alibhai -Brown talks a 
lot of sense on the subject of 
teenage mothers (“A new 
generation of mothers", 17 
December) . She is right that a 

society’s tendency to sexuafise 
young people at an earlier age is • 
one of the problems that underpin ' 
the increasing numbers of teenage 
parents. She is in my view right 
that same young women have > 

childr en because they look at tier 
futures and can't see any reason < 
not to get pregnant -a double i 

negative, nota positive choice. 

If any group of young people is at 
riskof social exclusion, it is teen ’ 
parents. It was because of this link* 
that the Social Exclusion Unit was 
given this subject to consider It is : 
working closely with the 
Department of Health on health > 
and social services issues. The 
problem is complex and cuts 
across the activities of many parts 
of Government - education and 
employment, and the whole 
package of support for teenage 
parents and their children. An 
approach that ignored these issued 
would have been ri^itfy criticised i 
as too narrow. i 

Young women get pregnant 
early for many reasons. But it is 
possible to create a picture of the : 
young woman most at risk of a ■ 
teenage pregnancy. Often, they 
have low educational attainment, 
th e"* famili es have had financial 

problems, their own mothers were 
teenage mums, and they have a 
preference themselves for earfy 
motherhood More than half of 
those with all these characteristics: 
will become a teenage mother Very 
few of those with none of them wiU. ] 
The last thing anyone wants to do ! 
is stigmatise vulnerable young 
people. Butyou do them a > 

disservice by ignoring the facts. 

Lastly, Yasmin is wrong to 
suggest that the Unit’s work has i 
been blocked or delayed for dark ! 
political reasons. The truth is 
rather more mundane. The Unit's i 
work on teenage parenthood has 
produced over three times more • 
submissions and pieces of 
research than any of its other 
reports. Its past work has been 
characterised by a belief in y 

listening to views from the front 
line and a commitment to 
producing soundly based, 
common-sense proposals. 

Teenage pregnancy is a complex, 
area. I am sure Yaanin would 
agree that it is better that we do it ! 
right rather than do it in a 
hurry. The costs of getting it 
wrong are too high. 

TESSA JOWELLMP ! 

Minister cf State for Public Health \ 
Department cf Health 
London SWl \X 

St Martin’s legacy ' 

Sin hi the shadow of St Martin-in- 
the-Fields church, what better 
image to erect on the vacant plinth 
in Trafalgar Square (letters, 

16 December) than that of Martin, 
born in eastern Europe, died in 
France, whose feast day in the 
Christian calendar is 11 November 
the day we associate with , 
armistice after ghastly combat} 

In youth a soldier; he died a 
missionary of the gospel of peace, 
and is famous for having staued Ms 1 ’ 
military cloak with anakedbeggan 
A sculptor could represent in * 

contemporary terms this dramatic : ! 

act of sharing. Mindful as we are of 

the need for the rich nations to 
share with the poor, the need to 
solve the problem of defat owed by 5 
developing nations, the need to 
tackle inequalities in our national ! 
life, and the claims on our charity 
made daily by individuals in our 
own cities and towns, a statue of 
Martin and a 1 
an inspiration for us ail to 
cany into the third miUannium 
of the Christian era. 

The Rev RICHARD HAYES 
St Mary Wodnoth Church 
London EC3 

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long. 

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I HAVE received many letters on 
die subject (four bombing raids on 
Iraq, ivith cm interesting range of 
viewpoints, and I have decided to 
print some of them here today. 

From General Sir Nigel 
Curmudgeon MC 
Sin Am I the only one who finds the 
spectacle of Tony Blair following in 
Bill Clinton's wake, rather like the 
little page boy following Good King 
Wenceslas, a bit nauseating? If we 
must try and settle Saddam's hash, 
surely we should not duck our re- 
sponsibilities but have the courage 
to go in there and bomb the hell out 
of Baghdad without waiting for 
the Americans to join in? The sight 
of Tony Blair trotting along Uke 
Clinton’s poodle is enough to make 
your blood bofl. 

Yours etc 


From Mrs Noreen Dempster 
Sir As past president of the Poodle 
Society of Great Britain, I take 
great exception to the imputation 
of the preceding letter that a poo- 
dle is a weak-minded, copycat of a 
dog. The poodle is loyal, yes, but 
also independent, brave, intelligent 
and anything but a milksop. I do not 
know how the poodle ever got the 
reputation of being a lame duck, 
but I resent the way it has become 
a general Aunt Sally. Let us have 
an end to it-or at least make fun 
of some other dog for a while! 
Yours etc 

From Mrs Sally WagstafF 
Sir. Here we go again. I refer, of 
course, to the phrase used in the 
preceding letter, namely “Aunt 
Sally". I have gone through my life 
grinding my teeth with fury at the 


image of this name as some sort of 
sitting duck for general target 
practice. It is high time it ceased. 
I have had it up to here with peo- 
ple saying “Aunt Sally”, which not 
only suggests that Sally is a silly 
name but also that all Sallys are 
aunty-ish. I am young and pretty so 
the phrase “Aunty Sally" makes me 
feel a bit schizophrenic sometimes. 
Yburs etc 

From Mr Dick Norman 
Sir: I cannot believe that someone 
who is so sensitive about her name 
can be so insensitive about the use 
of the word "schizophrenic". For 
heaven’s sake, do people still think 
that "schizophrenic" means “hav- 
ing a split personality"? Schizo- 
phrenia is a complex mental state 
which takes various forms, but 
split personality is not one of them. 



Miles 

Kington 

The sight of Tony Blair 
trotting along like 
Clinton's poodle makes 
the blood boil 

Let me assure you that the old idea 
of schizophrenia is a dead duck. 
Yours etc 


From Dr Ben Salamander 
Sir: I feel I cannot resist acting in 
my capacity as a keen ornithologist 
and pointing out that in every 
letter you have printed so fai; there 
has been a calculated insult to my 
favourite bird, the duck. Duck 
responsibilities... lame duck... sit- 
ting duck... dead duck... All the old 

cliches have been trotted out - 1 am 

surprised that nobody Has yet used 
"out for a duck” - and all at the ex- 
pense of the good old duck. But 
why? The duck is a handsome 
creature. It is loyal fiercely intel- 
ligent faithful and obedient to its 
master; and also tastes jolly good 
in orange sauce. Let us have no 
more of this gufabins. 

Yours etc 

From Mr Solomon Gubbins 
Sir. I have long ago given up try- 


ing to work out why the word “gub- 
bins" is synonymous with “mess" 
or “dog’s dinner". Nobody in this 
world has the surname Mess or 
Dog's-Dinner, but some of us are 
blessed with the name Gubbins 
some of us are sick to death of this 
constant misuse of our monicker 
Gubbins is a grand old Lincolnshire 
name meaning “gooseherd" or if it 
isn’t it jolly well should be, and if 
other Gubbinses are too lily-livered 
to stand up and defend their grand 
old name, then I am not 
Yours etc 

From Mrs lily Leadweli 
Sin I think you can probably guess 
why I am writing to you in white- 
hot fury. Yes, it’s that word “lily- 
livered". Oh, Mr Gubbins may get 
hot under the collar when he hears 
the word “gubbins", and he is en- 


titled, but for him then to utter the 
word “lily-livered" without qualms 
is beyond the pale. Why link the ^7 
and aawardice? The lDy is a not only 
a lovely flower but is also fiercely 
loyal, brave, intelligent andobedt-. 
ent Let us have no more of this. 
Yours etc 

From Mrs Dora w illiams 
Sin as my name suggests, X 

Welsh, and one of the things I call' 
not abide is the use of the phrase 
“to welsh on someone”. Tip®- 
phrase has not been used by any 
one in any of these letters, but I 
thought I would write in and say 
this anyway. Call me over-sensitfte 
if you like. Everyone else (Joes. 
Yours etc 

Thanks for the letters. I amsor^J. 
I did not have space ftr more. .- 




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He should go. He 
won’t go. And we’ll 
be the worse for it 

THE FIRST casualty of America's impeachment crisis is 
Tony Blair. As Bill Clinton hunkered down in Washington, 
Britain's Prime Minister came on ever more strongly in 
London as the military “victor” in the battle against Iraq. 

It is a triumphalism he will have cause to regret The 
bombing of Saddam Hussein was alm ost certainly not 
determined by Clinton's woes; but the high rhetoric of war 
and danger uttered while the Americans - with the 
British in tow - unleashed their might on Iraq night after 
night, was little more than obscene. 

“Politics has become a substitute for violence,” said 
Vice-President A1 Gore on the White House Lawn in fury 
after the impeachment vote. But whatever politics has 
become, violence is still unsubstituted - at least so far as 
the West “punishing” a Third World country is concerned. 

But then it is the sheer unreality of events that has 
marked more than anything else the events of the last four 
days; the gap between the grave words of war and the 
arms-length, fully televised bombardment that followed; 
the distance between the magnitude of impeachment and 
the offence of philandering. To the politicians concerned, 
this may seem the most important, the most historic 
moment of their lives: Blair in his war bunker, and the 
Republicans taking over the articles of impeachment to 
the Senate. To the public at large, however, it has all the 
elements of boys playing games. 

It is the gap between political reality and public per- 
ception which may well be the most important aspect of 
these events. Of course, there are real reasons for 
impeaching the President, just as there are real reasons 
for trying to destroy Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass 
destruction. The reality is that a US president in the eyes 
of the majority of people in Congress has lied under oath 
and acted to pervert the course of justice, however 
sordidly irrelevant the actual case. 

It is all very well for Clinton's supporters to go on about 
how partisan has been the occasion, and how personalised 
It has been partisan, in the very worst possible way. And 
it has displayed a personal loathing of President Clinton 
that is beyond any fair or reasonable manner of conducting 
affairs. But then politics in America has always been pas- 
sionately partisan. The last president to be impeached, 
Andrew Johnson, was tried by the Senate on entirely polit- 
ical grounds. It has been a myth of Reagan and now Clin- 
ton to talk of consensus and “pulling together” Polities 
is about power and when power is up for grabs - as it 
always is in the final term of a president and even more 
so when that President has opened his flank for the attack 
- then.tbe politics will get rougher. 

■ Clinton's fault in these terms has not been to be too 
liberal, nor even that he sinned, but to have given the 



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impression that he didn't mind too much about it all. Given 
half a chance, he would bolt for the door and be up to his 
old tricks again as soon as no one was looking. The Repub- 
licans are determined that will not happen. Instead of 
encouraging censure as a painful lesson. Clinton's sup- 
porters have promoted it as a means of escape. And that, 
on present mood, the Congressional majority will not allow. 

All this need not worry the US voter too much. Amer- 
ica is a country of peculiar balances of power and unique 
resilience. It can survive a period of high temperatures 
in Washington without overbearing in Kansas. Even Clin- 
ton - who in real policy terms has achieved remarkably 
little during his six years in office - could probably stum- 
ble on another two years continuing to do little more, 
shamed but not ashamed. 

The world, however, will find it rather more difficult to 
cope not only with a passive America but one whose pres- 
ident is maimed and whose relations with the political 
establishment is so poisoned that he can deliver nothing 


but the occasional jabs of his military. It shouldn't be so. 
but the end of the Cold War and the shifts in economic 
fortune have left the international scene in an unusual 
vacuum. American leadership, or at least the provision 
of American muscle, is needed. 

The Middle East is the obvious example. Clinton's visit 
to the region to try and revive the dying peace process 
was marred from the start by his troubles at home. If it 
was not for those troubles, he would probably never have 
tried it. The superimposition of the Iraqi crisis, co- 
incident although it was, has only made that failure the 
worse. While Clinton and Blair have talked of contain- 
ment, the rest of the Middle East has simply seen fur- 
ther evidence of Arab humiliation and powerlessness 
before the West. The allies, said Tony Blair at the begin- 
ning had no choice but to respond once Saddam Hus- 
sein had deliberately cocked a snook at the inspectorate 
and made a mockery of bis promises of a few months 
ago. But even accepting this, which we shouldn't, “no 


Invitation to a beheading for the 
politicians of the next century 


WHY ARE politicians, Clinton most 
d ramatically among them, regarded 
with such contempt? In most opinion 
polls they vie with journalists for bot- 
tom place in public esteem. Journal- 
ists I can understand, but politicians? 
After all, there are only two ways of 
resolving conflict One is through 
armed force and we see the grim con- 
sequences of that in Iraq. The other 
is throu gh politicians with conflicting 
views manoeuvring intriguing, ma- 
nipulating and debating in order to win 
.arguments. 

I restate what Basil Fawlty would 
viaU “a statement of the Weedin’ 
obvious” because there is a follow-up 
that should be as equally “Weedin' 
obvious": if practising the art of poli- 
tics is a much better way of resolving 
disputes than militar y mi gh t, we need 
the best political leaders we can get 
Pretty damned obvious isn't it? In 
which case, why do we impose con- 
ditions on the lives of political leaders 
that would deter all but the most 
driven or unhinged? 

As we head towards the Millen- 
nium, a president of the United States 
has been impeached for an office 
fling The British Foreign Secretary 
awaits nervously the publication of a 


!W revelations about his past private 
life will be splashed across every 
front page. His colleague, the Secre- 
tary of State for Trade and Industry, 
awaits with a similar trepidation the 
appearance of his biography written 
by a hostile journalist with a sharp in- 
stinct for news stories, having already 
been taunted for a trip to Rio de 
Janeiro and “outed” live on News- 


night The former Secretary of State 
for Whies licks his wounds, his polit- 
ical career in ruins after an excursion 
on Clapham Common. The Minister 
for Agriculture recovers from the or- 
deal of making a public statement con- 
fessing that he is gay. Several junior 
ministers fear it will be their turn next 
What century are we living in? 

Aspiring young Americans watch- 
ing the humiliation of Clinton, ageing 
visibly before our eyes, will surely 
think twice about entering politics. The 
argument that justifies his persecu- 
tion at the hand of desperate Repub- 
licans is that impeachment has 
nothing to do with sex and everything 
to do with pezjury. In which case, how 
was it that Clinton was ever asked in 
court about his sex life? What a 
bizarre legal system which allows such 
questions to be posed to a president 
when his infidelities had no rele- 
vance to the breaking of any law. That 
is just the legal dimension. Sbr the rest 
of the time, a president is placed on 
a pedestal only to be forced to dance 
humiliatingly to the discordant tunes 
of Congress. Clinton, a better presi- 
dent than the force in Washington and 
the IB-thought-out attacks on Iraq sug- 
gest, does not deserve this. 

In Britain the humiliations of those 
we elect take a different, but equally 
perverse, form. Unlike American 
presidents, governments are given vir- 
tually untrammelled power. Mad poli- 
cies such as the poll tax can reach the 
statute books without any great 
political tremors (the tremors come 
only once the mad policies take effect, 
by which time it is too late); entire tiers 
of government can be abolished at the 



Steve 

Richards 

Why do we impose such 
conditions on politicians’ 
lives that deter all but the 
most driven or unhinged ? 

whim of centralising prime ministers 
such as Margaret Thatcher; anti- 
terrorist legislation likely to have no 
practical effect on catching terrorists 
can be rushed through Parliament in 
two days, as happened last Septem- 
ber; and a Commons debate on Iraq 
can be held without a vote being 
allowed at the end - but if a minister 
is caught on Clapham Common, there 
is uproar. And which business Leader 
would accept an invitation to join the 
Government having seen Geoffrey 
Robinson, repeatedly, and Lord 
Simon, sporadically, being portrayed 
as rrmh after taking unpaid, imglam - 
orous junior ministerial posts? 

The legislators should be given a 
hard time for bad legislation, not for 
their private lives. Maybe then Britain 
would get better politicians and bet- 
ter policies. 


This is not to argue that politicians 
should be treated uncritically; for 
from it This government with its 
large majority, intolerance of dissent 
and weak opposition needs to be sub- 
jected to the most intense scrutiny at 
all times, includi ng when its expensive 
bombs (paid for by “the people's 
money”) are heading for Iraq. The 
same applies in the US. Clinton's 
mendacity cried out to be exposed and 
punished. But some sense of propor- 
tion should also be retained. The lies 
have been exposed Clinton has been 
punished and humiliated for months. 
Enough; he should be allowed to fin- 
ish his term as the voters now wish 
and as they wanted when they re- 
elected him. 

Of course some politicians merit 
the sneering cynicism with which 
they are viewed. There are bastards 
in politics as in any profession. But it 
is also true that many politicians 
could be earning infinitely more 
money in other jobs. At which point 
spare a thought, if you can face it so 
dose to Christmas, for members of the 
Shadow Cabinet I was not surprised 
to read the other day that John Red- 
wood was contemplating leaving pol- 
itics for a well-paid job elsewhere. 
Certainly his former adviser, Hywell 
Williams, told him to pack it in and 
make more money in the private sec- 
tor after his leadership bid foiled last 
year. I do not want to turn Redwood 
or Michael Howard into unlikely 
romantic heroes. Given the raw 
material, I would not succeed if I tried. 
Nor is there any need to shed a tear 
about their parlous financial states. 
But it should be noted that they are 


staying on in opposition, knowing 
almost certainly that they will not taste 
power again, heading towards 
retirement issuing unread press re- 
leases. In October 1997, 1 asked Red- 
wood why be was staying on. 

“There has to be an opposition. 
Someone’s got to do it" he said. 

They are doing their duty and - 
unlike Labour in the early 1980s when 
most of the Shadow Cabinet seemed 
to be having a ball as the party headed 
towards oblivion - they do not even 
look as if they are enjoying it There 
were also many Labour frontbenchers 
who could have earnt much more else- 
where in the 1980s but stayed on in 
what many of them thought would be 
a forlorn attempt to revive their party. 

With the media so vast and the op- 
portunities in business so great pol- 
itics already faces immense 
competition for talent Ken Living- 
stone observed alter the Thatcherite 
assault on local government that 
anyone who wished to become a 
councillor should see a psychiatrist 

As a president faces a trial in the 
Senate and politicians in Britain live 
in fear of some infidelity or other being 
exposed, how many bright young 
things are going to opt for national pol- 
itics in the new century? If the future 
crop of national politicians do not im- 
press. we voters are largely to blame. 
We get the politicians we deserve. If 
we want better ones, we should never 
forget that the alternative to their ma- 
noeuvring is the resolution of dispute 
through battle. A rowdy debate m the 
Commons is an infinitely more pleas- 
ing spectacle than the rubble of a 
bombed building in Baghdad. 


choice” is the very worst route of politics, still more of 
war. The lesson of this - and the lesson that Blair seems 
so reluctant to understand - is that the vacuum of 
international politics has to be filled by international insti- 
tutions. The result of the bombardment of Iraq has 
been a diminution of the UN. Blair has been left alone 
on a stage which should never have been held by a duet 
in the first place. As Clinton has foiled at home, so Blair's 
divorce from the rest of the world and the ridiculousness 
of Britain’s position as America's mercenary has seemed 
more glaring. 

As for Clinton, one can only despair. The very charac- 
ter - his buoyancy - that makes him determined to fight 
on is the very character that means his enemies will not 
rest until they have finished him. It's almost impossible 
to see compromise in these circumstances, or any con- 
clusion that does not bear the seeds of its own poison. 

He should resign. He won't resign. The world will be 
the worse for it, and Blair the littler. 


Q uote of the day 

“What we have done is to put him back firmly 
in the cage and secure it.” 

Tony Blair, on Saddam Hussein 

T HOUGHT FOR THE PAY 

'T have been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea 
it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it” 
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IN THE end, the issue is about 
the constitutional implications 
cf resignation, and whether it 
i$ warranted by the seriousness 
of [Clinton’s] offence. American 
voters have made their views 

cjlear on tins -they want neither 

resignation nor impeachment, 
j Unless and untfl that chan- 
ges, Clinton should stay on. 

\ The Observer 

H 

Clinton has lost the credi- 
bility he might have earned for 
other aspects of his presiden- 


cy and is no longer fit to lead 
the Western world. The Re- 
publican Speaker-elect, Bob 
Livingston, showed him the 
way to go when he resigned 
from the House of Represen- 
tatives [over] his extra-marital 
affair It is time to show Bill the 
door; and say hello to Gore. 

News of the World 

THE CRUDE Republican at- 
tempt to kick Mr Clinton out of 
office is particularly outrageous 
at this time of international cri- 


MONITOR 

ALL THE NEWS OF THE WORLD 
British press reaction to the impeachment of 
President Clinton by the US Congress 

sis. He has faced a trial rigged weighs his affair with a young 
on party lines by right-wingers woman in the White House, 
determined to drive him out of Sunday Mirror 

the presidency. Most [ordinary 

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good job - and that for out- IChnton] on the grounds that 


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America's chief law enforce- 
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to protect the country’s system 
oflaw- then lying before a Fed- 
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The Mail on Sunday 

MANY PEOPLE... forget that 
America’s authority in the 


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physical strength. The integri- 
ty of the man in the Oval Office 
matters as much, and Mr Clin- 
ton has been found wanting. If 
he survives a Senate trial, 
many will believe he has been 
allowed to mock the consti- 
tution he is charged to uphold. 

Unlikely that it is, Mr Clin- 
ton should go quietly before he 
inflicts further damage on his 
country and allows Saddam the 
last, hollow laugh. 

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IN A Commons debate on 
“competitiveness" last 
Wednesday, the nation’s 
greatest living spin-doctor, 
DTI minister Peter 
Mandelson, was stunned by 
an Alien Ebrce described by 
Mandelson himself later as 
“extra-planetary". Can 
anyone provide Pandora with 
a translation of Tory MP John 
Redwood’s following 
statement “Is the e-envoy in 
addition to the digital envoy 
announced a short while ago? 
Will those two gentlemen or 
ladies be in competition, or 
has the digital envoy been 
abolished before being 
approved, only to be replaced 
by the putative e-envoy? The 
whole thing is risible and 
muddled." Anyone have a 
Vulcan dictionary handy? 


AS THE joyous Christinas 
television festival descends 
upon us. Pandora offers 
readers a few “must-see" 
tips. On Christmas Day, 
during Before They Were 
Famous HI on BBC 1, don't 
miss the clip in which 
schoolboy David Beckham 
is shown juggling a football 
in front of a bunch of seated 
lads until he accidentally 
makes contact with one of 
their heads. Presenter 
Angus Deayton chimes in 
with: “David later claimed 
he never made contact with 
the lad. bnt if we carefully 
examine the video evidence 
I think we can see that he 
did." Isn’t that hilarious? 
And if your sides aren't 
already split beyond repair, 
tune in on Boxing Day to 
BBC 2*s profile “Are You 
Watching Jimmy Hill?” in 
which Terry Venables 
describes walking across 
the pitch with Jimmy at an 
Everton vs Liverpool match. 
The crowd began to chant 
“Jimmy Hill's a wanker, 
Jimmy Hill’s a... " And what 
did Jimmy say? “They love 
me here." Oh yes, you’ll 
laugh till you cry. 


Is Janies Brown {pictured, in 
laddish days/ beginning to 
show signs of 
strain? In The 
Times last 
Friday, the ex- 
editor of 
Loaded and 
nou’ 

pinstripe- 
suited 

editor of GQ 
declared 
that “to 



partake in the GQ lifestyle" 
it’s not necessary to be 
wealthy or upperclass - “you 
just have to feel that you 
could rob a bank". It’s to be 
hoped this won't be 
necessary, but the ex-New 
Lad certainly has a struggle 
on his hands. The magazine’s 
total ABC news-trade sales 
figures for the period 
January- June 1997, just 
before Brown’s arrival were 
111,547. The most recent 
figures, January- June 1998, 
were 104,481. 


TAKTS DIGNIFIED 
announcement in the 
current Spectator that he is 
to leave these shores - “I 
crap on cowardly pygmies 
like Cook, Mandelson and 
Straw, and will give up my 
British residence as soon as 
Palazzo Taki is ready in 
February" - threatens to 
cast the nation into 
mourning. In the meantime, 
news reaches Pandora of a 
triumph scored at a recent 
New York luncheon party by 
the astute Greek political 
and ethical commentator. 
While brandishing his 
cheque book, the lion- 
hearted Taki managed to 
face down such celebrity 
dwarves as novelist Norman 
Mailer, writer Gay Talese. 
actor Michael Douglas, 
Vanity Fair editor Graydon 
Carter and Pulitzer Prize- 
winning journalist David 
Halberstam - all of whom 
lacked the courage to 
accept the Greek’s political 
betting proposition. And 
what was the wager? Taki 
wanted to bet that Bill 
Clinton would not be 
impeached. 


NOT LONG ago media 
luminary Janet Street-Porter 
sparkiJy regaled executives at 
an Institute of Sale Promotion 
lunch about her latest 
television commercial. She 
reported that she had been 
rewarded with £35.000 and an 
original Alexander McQueen 
dress from entertainment 
group ONdigital. The thrust 
of the ad took advantage 
of Janet’s unique place in 
the public’s affection, 
with her saying to 
camera: “Hello. I 
know you don’t like 
me. but now you 
have a choice." 
Unfortunately, when 
Pandora finally 
reached Janet to 
discuss this original 
marketing ploy, Ms 
Street-Porter was not 
in her usual 
beneficent mood. 
“Stop harassing 
me," she rasped. 
“You’re really 
irritating me. Go 
ahead and write 
what you like. I 
don’t ever call 
back. I don't want 
to be in diaries." 
So it will be, 
darling. 




An actor damned by his creation 


ANTHONY HOPKINS, who last week 
covered the tabloids with state- 
ments that acting was driving him 
to a nervous breakdown and that he 
was giving it up to preserve his san- 
ity, is a highly gifted film and stage 
actor, particularly in film where he 
famously demonstrates a rare tal- 
ent for analysis of character: He 
peels bade the skin of his roles, not 
unlike Hannibal Lecter; and pours 
himself inside fopm. He cannot, as 
many players do, stand outside and 
kick their character around and be 
unaffected. No matter how suc- 
cessful Silence of the Lambs was, 
how clever his creation, it is possi- 
ble that he may fed sullied and even 
damned by it 

If in my modest career I have 
been frequently angled out for a par- 
ticular performance in some old 
Hollywood caper how much more 
must Hopkins's ears be assaulted by 
fans; who have now relegated the 
man’s entire career to a sicko- 
xnovie freak. Eventually you become 
who the public thinkyou are, unless 
you are bolstered by a vital and sup- 
portive social structure, or have 
alternative means of re-identifying 
yourself, by taking up the reins of 



STEVEN 

BERKOFF 


Theatre can be a great 
restorer, the baptismal 
river where your sins 
are washed off 


production and selecting your own 
material. By his own admission 
Hopkins is a loner preferring his 
own company, which is the prerog- 
ative of many hyper-creative and 
raw artists, but then he has no 
wedge of human flesh as a protec- 
tive wall between him and the world 
Acting perse does not make you 
mad, necessarily, unless you feel 
that you have vitiated your power or 


corrupted your talents. Hopkins 

certainly hasn't done this to anything 

lik e the extent of his saner inferiors 

who wallow from junk to junk seem- 
ingly unaffected. However, these 
actors are not burdened with Hop- 
kins's finer perceptions. Madness is 
(Erectly tinted to forcing a highly 
developed ego to swallow garbage. 
The more delicate the system, the 
more aggressive the sickness. 

Monroe started to lose herseff as 
did Montgomery Clift, and a dozen 
more who were force-fed with the 
mulch that their talents had grown 
out of and were not strong enough 
to withstand The actor is unique in 
a that the material used is his 

own body and soul This m a ke s 
him extraordinarily vulnerable. 
However; vulnerability can illumi- 
nate a character that the actor 
believes in and feels pride in serv- 
ing. Conversely, humiliation can 
send an actor into a wobbly, where 
the shame only be anaes- 
thetised by alcohol injection. 

Madness for actors is par for the 
course. However most great actors 
are extremely sane. They may suf- 
fer from hyper-awareness, having 
stretched their radar systems, since 


after a while, the scanner cannot be 
easily switched off. Obsessions, 
compulsions and perfectionism be- 
come a few of the many psychic dis- 
turbances that we are prone to. 
Some of us have managed to bal- 
ance an a cting life with writing or 
directing, thus the child becomes a 
parent able to create for others. 

while theatre can be stress- 
making, a great and dem an di ng 
role can be liberating and purging 
- an opportunity to vent all shades 
of emotion, including those of mad- 
ness in the service of the character. 
This has a purgative effect Since 
theatre usually deals with language 
in a heightened form, the roles you 
are playing are likely to enhance 
rather than d efla te or humiliate. 

You cannot feel shame playing 
Lear; Hamlet, Macbeth or Chekov. 
You might feel pride, be heartened, 
even ennobled and believe yourself 
to be an emissary of literature, a 
communicator or a teacher An in- 
telligent audience confirms you as 
their guide - their Prometheus car- 
rying the fire of inspiration. A bunch 
of spotty popcorn eaters slurping 
Pepsi and watching Silence of the 
Lambs is not likely to do that, but 


[Hopkins's role in] Remains of the gj., 
Day was a perfect performance s- “ 
any actor would have been proud of 

for years. . 

Nevertheless, without wishing 
to bang the luwie drum, theatre for 
an actor ™n be a great restorer the 

baptismal river where your sins are 

washed off That’s why many a 
movie actor who was stage-trained 
tikes to return to the font as a 
means of recovering their ego. 

There an actor’s skill, sensitivity and 

power is tested to the limit and thus 
the personality re-identifies i tself. 
Madness is a form erf alienation from 
thesouL 

And if Tm not mistaken, it was 
the theatre that helped restore 
Hopkins's career when he returned 
after years of Hollywood drift. At 60, 

Sir Anthony appears to be an actor . 
in peak condition - maybe the an- . . _ 
swer is to have an occasional the- 1 
atrical restorative. Olivier was still " 
playing Othello at 60 and then . . 
Edgar in Dance of Death - a veiy 
suitable role for Hopkins. One of the 
good things about theatre is that it ..." 
gives you a little time to dwell on ' 
your madness, but a great oppor- 
tunity to use it 


Nothing has felt quite right 
about the attacks on Iraq 


WAS THERE large-scale rejoicing 
yesterday after the Prime Minister’s 
announcement that the aims of mil- 
itary action against Iraq had been 
achieved, and within four days, and 
with no allied casualties? Of course 
not The reaction has been one of 
mild relief, no jubilation, no satis- 
faction taken from a job well done. 
The reason is that nothing that has 
happened since bombing began on 
\fednesday night has felt quite right 

To begin with, it didn't feel quite 
right that President Clinton should 
launch the attack just before the 
House of Representatives was due 
to debate his impeachment In a 
democracy, the leader needs moral 
authority to wage war and to risk the 
lives of members of the armed 
forces. Indeed the President of the 
United States is also America’s 
Commander-in-Chief. Yet immedi- 
ately after Mr Clinton's statement 
the majority leader in the Senate, 
Trent Lott said: “I cannot support 
this militaty action in the Gulf at this 
time” This turning of the back, by 
the senior member of the Republi- 
can Party, when American troops 
were risking their lives, was aston- 
ishing. By then it was too late for 
Tony Blair to withdraw, but was he 
not bewildered when he saw the 
patriotic Republican Party disown 
the Commander-in-Chief? 

Nor was the report by the United 
Nations' inspectors in Iraq, whose 
negative findings on the govern- 
ment’s level of compliance was the 
immediate cause of Anglo- American 
retaliation, as widely accepted as one 
would expect President Clinton 
gave their account an effective spin 
- instead of the inspectors disarm- 
ing Saddam, Saddam had disarmed 
the inspectors - but the UN secre- 
tary general KoEfi Annan, described 
Iraqi compliance as a “mixed pic- 
ture" that fells short of “foil co- 
operation". In fact the so-called 



ANDREAS 

WHITTAM 

Smith 

Why were Saddam 's 
neighbours not urging us 
on, proinding help and 
rejoicing in our success? 


Unscoro report does not predict an 
emergency. It merely refers to rou- 
tine violations. 

Curious, too, was the reaction of 
the supposed beneficiaries of the 
bombing of Iraq, the neighbouring 
countries of the Middle East The 
President and the Prime Minister 
said that Saddam must not be 
allowed to threaten his neighbours 
with nuclear weapons, poison gas or 
biological weapons. Indeed not But 
why. then, were the neighbours not 
urging us on, providing all the help 
they could and rejoicing in our suc- 
cess? Mr Blair implies that they 
secretly harbour these emotions 
but dare not express them. We are 
to think of them as profoundly but 
silently thankful 

This is possible. On the other 
hand, the silence maybe because the 
overriding feeling of Iraq’s neigh- 
bours is repugnance at the sight of 
nations from what is seen as the 
Christian, colonialist West assault- 
ing a Muslim, Arab country, what- 


ever its faults. In which case, one 
wonders what we are doing there. 

We used to be told that interven- 
tion was necessary to protect our oil 
supplies. Now that there is a giut- 
so that even last week the oil price 
continued to fall - this is no longer 
put forward as a reason. 

Instead we are asked to consid- 
er a more genera] point While other 
countries possess weapons of mass 
destruction and ballistic missiles, 
with Saddam there is one big dif- 
ference - he has used them, not once 
but repeatedly. Left unchecked Sad- 
dam will use these terrible weapons 
again. This is a proposition with 
seeming power. It implies that the 
international community cannot 
and should not tolerate murderous 
dictators holding such weapons. 
Except that three members of the 
five permanent members of the 
Security Council - France. Russia 
and China - do not agree that Sad- 
dam is such a worrying case. Nor do 
we receive any support worth hav- 
ing from our European partners. 
Germany's backing is tepid to the 
point of meaninglessness. The rest 
are silent The moral case receives 
no support from other countries 
like ourselves. 

This is very peculiar. One expla- 
nation would be that our European 
neighbours do not believe that Sad- 
dam’s Iraq is such a terrible threat 
They note that of Saddam’s 950 
short- and medium-range missiles 
that he had acquired before 1 99 1, all 
have been found and destroyed 
Thus he lacks conventional means 
of projecting chemical or biological 
material beyond his borders. 

An alternative interpretation is 
that France, Germany, Italy, Spain 
and the rest simply do not believe in 
the efficacy of aerial assault. The 
snatches of film of bombs hitting 
their targets which the Ministry of 
Defence shows every day are not 



A US airman writes a ‘goodwill’ message on a missile EPA 


convincing. We have no idea whether 
the target has been correctly iden- 
tified or whether it contains what it 
is said to contain. Did we destroy any 
Republican Guards, or “special" 
Republican Guards or the “drones 
of death" as the Secretary of State, 
George Robertson, calls the un- 
manned aircraft which Saddam is 
supposed to be constructing? 

Likewise we are asked to believe 
that Saddam can only maintain his 
power by using a “command and 
control" system and this we have 
severely damaged. But in the past, 
dictators have generally got along 
without such sophisticated com- 
munications networks. 

It may also be the case that our 
neighbours' withholding of support 
is explained by their embairass- 
menL For they see American policy 
as cruel and counter-productive. 
Cruel because some Iraqi civilians 
have undoubtedly been killed or in- 
jured during the past few days, and 
cruel because the policy of eco- 
nomic sanctions bas reduced Iraq to 
a state of malnutrition and disease. 

As Robert Fisk reported on Fri- 


d^, Dennis Hallki^ who ran the UN $ 
oil-for-fbod programme in Bagh- . 
dad, resigned when he realised that ■' 
thousands of Iraqi children were . . 
dying every month because of sane- 
lions. He commented: “We are in the .. ' 
process of destroying an entire so- ' 
dety ... it is illegal and immoral” 

And counter-productive, because 
dictators often generate loyalty by 
standing up to and fighting a wicked 
external enemy, the Great Satan in 
some form or other. On this reading* " 
Saddam will have been delighted byt? ! 
Anglo-American resolve to maintain "" 
sanctions and patrol the Guff Not so 
much “Oh, what a lovely war!" but 
“Oh, what a lovely enemy!" 

It has been a strange few days for 
this country. We really need to un- 
derstand why we received scarcely 
any backing from countries with 
whom we have much in common, 
and whose leaders and dtizens are 
in constant touch with us. What do 
thqy perceive which we do not? 

What have we understood which V 
they have failed to comprehend? j: . 
What is the meaning of this episode, .4. 
where nothing rings true? 



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THE ADVOCACY of Eu- 
ropean integration has 
gained much from its 
alliance with the free 
trade doctrine derived from Ri- 
cardo, and which proved such 
a powerful intellectual weapon 
in the 19th century. Even before 
the creation of the European 
Economic Community, the Eu- 
ropean Payments Union was 
designed to facilitate trade. 
Then the Economic Commu- 
nity itself had as one of its 
major initial objectives the re- 
moval of tariffs between the 
members. Although this was 
strikingly - and speedily suc- 
cessful - it soon became ap- 
parent that '‘non-tariff 
barriers" - meaning, princi- 
pally product quality and safe- 
ty regulation - were imposing 
costs in trade of the same type 
as tariffs previously had. 

Thus the Internal Market 
Programme, or the “1992 Pro- 
ject" as it came to be known, 
was devised to remove these 
barriers as well. Monetary 
Union should be seen as a fur- 
ther step along this road in two 

respects. First, the removal of 
transactions costs in trade 
eliminates one further barrier. 
But second, it has become 
commonplace in Continental 


Europe to argue that the com- 
pletion of the internal market 
makes monetary union urgent 
because in its absence, coun- 
tries are likely to seek to use ex- 
change rate depreciations to 
increase their export market. 
Thus, exchange rate protection 
is seen to be the new threat, 
once non-tariff barriers have 
been removed. The same basic 
argument is applied to the So- 
cial Chapter, and most recent- 
ly to tax harmonisation. 

One can hardly fail to be im- 
pressed by these develop- 
ments in Europe. The 
achievement of such a high de- 
gree of free trade is impressive 
in its own right and - at least 
from a certain perspective - 
one must be impressed by the 
depth of integration which has 
proven so welcome to much of 
the Continent However, the 
outlook for free trade may not 
be so positive. On the course on 
which the European Union is 
heading, it is in danger of play- 
ing into the hands of protec- 
tionist elements. This is by no 
means exclusively a consequen- 
ce of monetary union, but it is 
significantly so, and the dan- 
gers of a substantial move to- 
wards protectionism grow as 
integration deepens. Nor is 



PODIUM 


James forder 

From the annual 
Politeia Lecture by the 
economist at 2 Carlton 
House Terrace, 

Pall Mall, London 


there anything uniquely Euro- 
pean in the dangers. Nation 
states are subject to many of 
the same pressures, but I be- 
lieve the European Union is 
poorly placed to deal with 
them, and consequently, more 
likely to be susceptible to them. 

The history of European in- 
tegration reveals that the 
member states continue to 
perceive an interest in protec- 
tionism. In the Celebrations 
that attended the success of the 



1992 Project's removal of non- 
tariff barriers, a question rarely 
asked was why such a pro- 
gramme was necessary Or al- 
ternatively, why had non-tariff 
barriers not been removed 
along with tariff barriers in the 
early 1960s. if they were agreed 
to be equivalent in their effects? 

The answer is that non-tar- 
iff barriers only became a sub- 
stantial problem after the 
removal of tariffs. It does not 
take much imagination to see 
that they also became a prob- 
lem because of the removal of 
tariffs. The problem was that 
the means of protection (tariffs) 
had been removed, but the 
motives for it (whatever pre- 
cisely they may be) had not 

So it should be recognised 
that the creation of the Cus- 
toms Union - although surely 
desirable - operated in part in 
the manner of treating symp- 
toms. The underlying causes of 
protection remained. 

Europe has been blighted by 
unemployment throughout the 
1980s and 1990s. The causes of 
this can be argued about One 
popular view is that a “rigidi- 
ty” of labour markets is to 
blame. I find it difficult to take 
that seriously since the extent 
to which any European labour 


market is more rigid now than 
in the 1960s must be very lim- 
ited. An alternative explanation 
is that the policy framework .! T 
adopted by most countries . 0 
early in the 1980s, and subse- : ' 
quentiy written into the Maas- 
tricot Treaty has done more or V,‘- 
less permanent damage to ^ 
labour markets- and sudi ex-. 
cessive concern with inflation ’’ . 
is to be avoided in future. 

Whatever the explanation of '-V. 
unemployment, howevex; one 
cannot escape the fact that it v 
creates the political circum- 
stances which are favourable 
to protectionism. In recent 
years, most ot Continental Eu- 
rope has been heading towards 

monetary union, and in most 
countries this has been a pop- 
ular objective. Political Elites 
have succeeded in arguing 
that the pain of the Maastricht 
process must be endured in 
order for the prize to be won. 

WelL the prize is about to be 

won, and i twili certainty not re- 
sult in a quick fall in unemploy- 
ment It remains to be seen 
what the popular reaction to 
this will be, but it is difficult to 
rule out a great deal of 
pressure for protection- 
ism to safeguard jobs 
and create new ones. 









THE MONDAY REVIEW 

The Independent 21 December 1998 




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COMMENT/5 


Fairy lights and surgical strikes 


$ 



John Walsh 


Who can see the livid 
tracer-fire and not think 
of it as our gift of Christmas 
illuminations to Saddam ? 


“SHE CHANGES her expression/ And 
puts on smy-vBl Baby Expressions,” trill the 
children as we thread our way through the 
crush in Hamleys. They are singing an 
advertising jingle off the telly. Baby 
Expressions is apparently a new doll of 
mercurial disposition whose bee succes- 
sively radiates fear loathing, suspicion, 
hatred, depression and wind while your chil- 
dren are playing with iL Despite its violent 
mood- swings (which, if it were a real kid, 
would make you suspect it of being on 
drugs), it’s what Clementine, aged three, 
most wants for Christmas. 

Jl I try to explain to her that a doll is not 
supposed to have an emotional range; that 
it is a neutral template upon which to pro- 
ject certain role-playing emotions of one’s 
own; that it is merely a plastic homunculus 
created to encourage an infan t’s child- 
rearing instincts. Clementine regards me 
steadily. She is obviously impressed by my 
confident grasp of toy psychology. Then she 
sticks out her quivering lower lip like an 
okapi and her blue eyes fill with tears. 

“But it's mince," she cries, as stubborn 
as Saddam Hussein in Violet Elizabeth Bott 
ringlets. My otherwise charming daughter 
has suddenly turned into Baby Expressions 
(though without the smy-ull) and frankly, 
they deserve each other. 

She's also keen on Dentist Barbie, the 
latest incarnation of the slender plastic 
dreamboat who (a tiny disclaimer on the 
- cardboard pa ckagin g advises you) “cannot 

stand up unaided". Wfe have aU, I think, been 
out with girls like that Tm just surprised 
at this new turn in her restless professional 
career. After being a doctor a policewoman 
and an Olympic skier; she's now eschewed 
the more modern options of Spin Doctor 
Barbie (those boring Armani suits would 
never do) and PR Executive Barbie (too 
many hats, real and metaphorical) and 
plumped for dentistry, which gives her the 
chance to wear a gleaming white uniform 
and wield a little battery of probes and 
mouthwash glasses. 

Dolls apart, Christmas shopping has 
• -'^Oeen a learning curve of nomenclature. I 
have schlepped the streets like the Ancient 
Mariner asking strangers if they’ve heard 
of the Nerf Eagle-Eye, a gun of spectacu- 
lar proportions upon which my son’s festive 
equilibrium depends. Ignorant as a yule log 
when it comes to computer games. I’ve 
caught up with the Play Station empire at 
last and its excitable personnel - like 
Crash Bandicoot, a name Mervyn Peake 
would have been proud to invent Until last 
week, the bandicoot was an insectivorous 
ari herbivorous marsupial of the genus 
-^fhmeles; its names derives. I need hardly 
remind you, from the Telegu word 



pondikdkku meaning “pig-rat". Well forget 
that It now has a new global identity as a 
hyperactive cartoon rat who rides around 
on motor bikes looking for jewels and 
blasting anyone who gets in the way. 

And there's that other word. Along 
Regent Street the overhead Alumina dons 
inform the children that Christmas is the 
season to be “Tango'd". What does it mean. 
Dad? It means, my dears, that the point of 
the festive season is apparently for its 
celebrants to become intoxicated with fizzy 
orange drinks. Can this be true? Four 
years ago, when the Christmas lights fea- 
tured characters from Aladdin to advertise 
the newly-released Disney movie. I rang the 
Association of Oxford Street Shop-owners 
to ask how they’d allowed it to happen. 

“But Aladdin is terribly Christmassy," 
the lady PR said. 

“Madam." I replied coldly, “ Aladdin is 
from The Arabian Nights, a book of Persian 
fairy tales translated into Arabic in AD 850. 
It’s about as Christmassy as the Sphinx." 

“Oh," she said, roguishly, “but, you know. 
Widow Twankey and all that" 

The fact that Disney had handed over a 
colossal wedge of cash for letting the Genie 
gatecrash the crib, as it were, wasn't men- 
tioned. And now we shake our heads about 
the Thngo sponsorship as if it weren’t the 
natural consequence of commercial spon- 


sorship. In my view, we should simply con- 
gratulate whichever marketing genius was 
responsible for ensuring that nobody mil 
ever utter the name “Tango" again without 
a grimace of distaste. 

* 

BliT AS one races around town, getting and 
spending, noting with amusement this 
gross innovation, that amusing toy, 
everything seems to turn into a mirror of 
the events in the Middle East "Vou don't have 
to be a cormection-h ungry poet to find awful 
correspondences between trivial matters 
here and terrible events there. Who can look 
at the livid tracer-fire, the afterburners of 
missiles and the crimson striations in the 
night sky over Baghdad and not think of 
them as our present of Christmas illumi- 
nations to the back-sliding infidel? 

Look at the face of five-year-old Susan 
Jasin in a Baghdad hospital with her head 
swathed in muslin and it’s clear 'tis the sea- 
son to be bandaged After the PlVJTs assur- 
ances about the Iraqi leader's continued 
demonic intentions, Saddam Hussein 
becomes a moustachioed Crash Bandicoot, 
hunting down the sacred jewels of oil and 
land Listen to the US Chief of Staff's lec- 
tures about the surgical precision of cruise 
missiles and an image lodges in your head 
of a juvenile war-monger at the Pentagon, 


his thumbs working away at a Play Station 
console, sending 200 Tomahawks across a 
TV screen and marvelling at the realism of 
the destruction that ensues. Just trying to 
buy a Nerf Eagle-Eye gun fills your head 
with that endless mantra: “weapons of mass 
destruction". You can't, any more, tell the 
lady from the Oxford Street Association that 
the Arab world is nothing to do with Christ- 
mas when your dinner-party companions 
speculate whether bombing the Middle East 
during Ramadan would be the equivalent 
of their bombing us during the Queen’s 
Speech. Even when they derided to cease 
the raids at the weekend it felt as if we were 
just waiting for the next build-up, the next 
inspection-team report, the next presi- 
dential phone ea U It will probably take about 
a year. We can do this all over again as a 
seasonal chore, like pulling the Christmas 
tree lights out of their box in the attic. 

In his address to the nation on Friday. 
Saddam Hussein thanked the early- 
warning-system technologists who antici- 
pated the first wave of US missiles, and 
called them “the grandchildren of Zarqaa 
al-Yamama”, a famous Iraqi seerwbo could 
see things at a great distance. So could 
Nostradamus, who prophesied that 
Armageddon would fafl at the end of the sec- 
ond millennium. I’ve never known a more 
unsettling time to be sending greetings 


cards invoking “peace on earth, goodwill to 
all men", when the TV is hiccupping with 
threats, and the rumble of B-52 bombers 
punctuates the Nine O'clock News. 

* 

THE CHRISTMAS spirit does not apparently, 
work overtime. Fbur days ago. I ordered the 
turkey and smoked ham from Hester's, the 
marvellous bespoke butcher's shop beside 
Vauxhall Gardens. The boss and I ex- 
changed badinage. He reminisced about the 
biggest turkey that had ever passed 
through his hands - 69lbs, he said, and the 
only oven large enough to take it was the 
ancestral furnace at Westminster's Children 
Hospital. I bought some sausage meat with 
chestnuts. He threw in some chipolatas. We 
couldn’t have been friendlier. It was a 
Pickwickian scene to gladden the heart 

“Goodbye." he said at last “and in case 
I don’t see you again, merry Christinas". 

“But we'U see each other next week," I 
replied, “when I come to pick the bird up." 

The butcher looked at me sadly. 

“Bv Tuesday it'll be chaos in ’ere: 151b 
turkeys all over the place. We'A all be far 
too growly to be nice to customers." 

So, in the same tradition of curmudgeonly 
realism - before things get too fraught and 
snappish in the land of deadlines, happy 
Christinas to all in Readeriand. 


RIGHT 
OF REPLY 

Harold W 
Rubin 

A London galleiy 
owner responds to 
Tom Lubbock's 
‘Critical Condition’ 
article on the state 
of the visual arts 
in Tuesday’s 
Independent 

AS A London gallery owner, I 
should be qualified to answer 
Tom Lubbock’s article on 
criticism. I have designed nu- 
merous galleries, I have been 
a curator and I am (once 
again) a dealer. I own many 
works of art However I am not 
rich, nor have many of the per- 
sons to whom I have sold art 
been rich, unless, in the words 
of Bernard Barruch, “being 
rich is having a dollar more 
than you can spend”. 

What Mr Lubbock has done 
is to compound the myth and 
misunderstanding about how 
and why art is exhibited and 
who is concerned with it No; 
very rarely wAl a review help 
to sell much of the art it dis- 
cusses. Taking his premise 
further, I know that it would be 
cheaper and less work if I 
dealt privately and avoided 
having a gallery open to the 
public. My desire for his review 
or that of others is for the 
artist's sake. Many artists 
whose work I have shown are 
more anxious for that word 
than for the sales which might 
help support them financially. 
Time after time I have to ex- 
plain how hard I have tried to 
make contact and been ig- 
nored. At last there has been 
some explanation as to how 
the chosen ones are selected. 

Admittedly, there are so 
many galleries and so many 
artists that getting a few 
words in print is doubtless as 
rare as winning the Lottery. 
The purpose of an exhibition 
is that an artist wOl see and 
evaluate his own work in hav- 
ing it arranged together in an 
environment other than his 
own workshop. 

I know from experience 
how the work wAl change and 
develop after such a showing. 
One painter answered the 
question of who he painted for 
with: “Myself and 12 friends ” 
Could a critic's role bt that of 
helping find those friends as 
his contribution and res- 
ponsibility? 

Every so often one sees or 
hears of a neophyte visitor who 

wakes to an awareness he 
has never experienced before 
when looking at an exhibi- 
tion. It is nice to encourage 
these souls. 


In search of Christian values 


AS ALAN Wilkinson reports in the penultimate 
chapter of Christian Socialism, surveys show 
that the Prime Minister’s Christian commitment 


is one of the best known facts about him. This 
_^uk is written to describe and evaluate the dis- 
unctivety socialist strand of Christian social con- 
cern, which goes back in this country to the early 
days of the 19th century. 

I encountered this tradition when It was at its 
most publicly influential, in the middle of the Sec- 


ond World War. As a boy of 17, 1 attended the 


Christian 

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much-reported 1942 meeting in the Albert Hall 
when Archbishop Temple and Sir Stafford 
Cripps launched an overtly Christian campaign 
for moral and social renewal after the war In 
that sam e year Temple, as Archbishop of Can- 
terbury, p ublish ed a Penguin Special on Chris- 
tianity and the social order It sold 139,000 
copies and was re-published in 1976 with a fore- 
word by Sir Edward Heath. Temple said that the 

widespread sales were because “everyone is 
pl anning the good world which we hope to see 
-Shen the war is over". 

At the end of the war, while still serving in the 
army in In dia, I also was looking forward to this 
“good world” when Attlee was elected Labour 
prime minister I rejoiced in the opportunity to 
implement the Beveridge Report, and to carry 


forward a vision of soda! organisation related 
to Christian and humanist understanding erf com- 
munity and mutually responsible citizenship. 

Beveridge attended Balliol College, Oxford, 
at the beginning of this century with William Tem- 
ple and the noted Christian socialist teacher and 
writer RH Tawney. Tawney made a notable 
(though critical, for he was no utopian) contri- 
bution to Christian socialist thought in a series 
of books such as The Acquisitive Society 
Equality, and the classic Religion and the Rise 
of Capitalism. Hie public and political influence 
of this Balliol trio was at its height in that post- 
war enthusiasm, which I shared, for Christian 
socialism and a welfare state. Since then, much 
has changed. As reported by Wilkinson, in the 


1980s I found myself confronting Thatcherism 
for its idolatrous belief in the free market and 
its offensive refusal to face the task of provid- 
ing effective transitional care for the victims of 
capitalism’s “creative gales of destruction" 
(even if that destruction was necessary, and in 
the long run hopeful). WQkinson locates ail this 
in an interesting and detailed account of the 
many-stranded developments of Christian so- 
cialism in the UK He is wisely critical, pru- 
dentially concerned with a proper assessment 
of some aspects of Victorian values and the val- 
ues of the market, reasonably doubtful about 
some aspects of New Labour; and with a sharp 
eye for the romantic Utopian tendencies in much 
Christian social thought 

He also reports some quotable remarks, of 
which my favourite is that of the Reverend 
Samuel Barnett who founded Toynbee Hall in 
the East End in 1884. He argued that the state 
should help malm society more equal by redis- 
tributive taxation. Barnett was wont to remark: 
“God loveth a cheerful tax-payee" Clearly a text 
to be commended to Messrs Blair and Brown. 

In The New Politics, Paul Vallety has edited 
a competent account of the social teachings of 
the Popes, from Leo XD1 in 1891 to John Paul 
ITs seven documents between 1979 and 1995. The 
editor contributes a stimulating survey by way 
of introduction, a strong concluding chapter on 
“John ffaul n and The New Millennium”, and an 
epilogue “Towards a New Politics - Catholic so- 
cial teaching m a pluralist society”. 

The latter ought to be required reading for 
all men and women who see their faith as in- 
escapably involved in social and political action. 
This essay - and indeed the entire book -pro- 
vide powerful philosophical and moral points of 
significance to all humanists who search for uni- 


MONDAY POEM 


CALAIS 

BY GLYN MAXWELL 


They tin-opened his head. 

Apparently it said 
CALAIS across his brain 
in red. Which should explain 
the puzzlement and pain 
and focus that he felt, 
that afternoon he smelt 
its fuel-and-flshy ain 
then mulled it over in a square 


like one whom little girls 
untasseffing their hair 
in French and combing it to curls 
adore when he's thirteen, 

who wonders what on earth they mean 
and guesses and is wrong, 
goes pink and carries on, 
finds the ferry gone. 


. Our poems until 8 January come from the 10 volumes shortlisted for this year's 
TS Biot Prize, to be announced on 1 1 January. Glyn Maxwell's The Breakage ’ 
is published by Faber (£7.99) 



Church-goer Tony Blair David Rose 


versaliy shareable, and realistically hopeful val- 
ues. In between are chapters moving chrono- 
logically through the papal writings from six 
experienced writers, including the director of 
CAFOD on “Looking out on the World's Poor" 
the director of the Catholic Institute for In- 
ternational Relations on “People before Profit” 
and Clifford Longley on “Structures of sin and 
the free market". Taken together they build into 
a remarkably sustained argument for an au- 
thoritative approach to social problems. 

Alas, they do not settle the issue of how any 
religious body or person can claim to be right 
on vital issues when all churches and their rep- 
resentatives have obviousty been wrong in the 
past on aspects of thinking, morals and actions. 
But both books highlight the fact that we Chris- 
tians have something vital both to say, and to live 
up to. They challenge Christians to contribute 
more effectively to keeping our 21st-century 
world open to a sustainable, shareable and hope- 
ful future. 

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Richard Thomas 


RICHARD THOMAS joined the Royal 
Navy in 1951, when its distillation 
and digestion of the lessons of the 
Second TOarid War were being inter- 
rupted by Korea. He left it 40 years 

later as the Cold War was ending. 

The Cod Wars were the nearest 
he got to actual hostility, but he had 
a Adi, interesting and rewarding ca- 
reen within the serwee for most of 
the time, but latterly as its repre- 
sentative - and that of the UK - in 
two key Nato posts. When he retired, 
he had" the good fortune that another 
career; shorter but no less reward- 
ing, was waiting for him at the 
Palace of Westminster. 

The son of a naval officer; Thomas 
joined the Navy from Downside. He 
lived the rest of his life very much 
in accordance with the tenets of its 
teaching . He was one of the happi- 
est husbands and fathers; his entry 
in Who's Who testifies that his only 
recreation was his family. He was 
soon at sea in the old Illustrious, of 
Taranto feme but hy 1951 the Home 
Fleet training carries; and then in an- 
other veteran of wartime building, 
the cruiser Gambia. 

five years into his career; he 
started his professional acquain- 
tance with the world outside the Na\y 
as Flag Lieutenant to the Comman- 
der-in-ChiefaftheoldEastln^essta- 
tion. Then came a succession of small 
ship appointments - navigator of a 
frigate (EasfixwiT7xe),watchkeeperin 
a destroyer (Crossbow), command 
of a landing ship (Buttress), and, still 
a Lieutenant, a coastal minesweep- 
er (Wolverton). 

Then in 1962 came the benchmark 
of an app ointment to HMY Britannia. 
An early tendency to acerbity and im- 
patience had disappeared with years 
and experience, and an especially dis- 
tinguished execution of his duties as 
second in command of the frigate Ibr- 
bay led to swift promotion to Com- 
mander and to the command of the 
destroyer Troubridge <1966481. 

This had been a good start to a ca- 
reen with an abundance of sea time, 
but Thomas’s next three appoint- 
ments, i.e. the remaining six years 
in the normal zone for promotion to 
Captain, were all to be spent large- 
ly ashore. The deployment and train- 
ing of seaman ratings kept him 


busy - there were 13UKH) of them in 
those days, and he made some im- 
provements to the system- 

Then name a stint on the staff of 
the Flag Officer Flotilla 1 (one of the 
three divisions of the Fleet), followed 
by a move to Rosyth as Staff Officer 
Operations to FOSNL, the Flag Offi- 
cer; Scotland and Northern Ireland. 
That job was dominated by the secy 
rad OsdVfer of 1972, a large-scale and 
serious fishing dispute in Northern 
waters, iromcaDy between two Nato 
allies and involving alas several col- 
lisions as nets were cut or ships ma- 
noeuvred to avoid such an offence. 

Thomas was much involved, and 


Flag Officer Second Flotilla (1985-87), 
which he thoroughly enjoyed, espe- 
cially in seeing whether his staff 
could be reduced to a number which 
could realistically accompany him to 
sea; this was a reflection of his sec- 
ond appointment as a Commander. 

He coukLhave retired then after a 

good careen There had been the ItHig 


assured, a series of testing and re- 


flag list and a good command afioat 
Fbr the Navy of those days, which 


gmd an attention to c n n vn t details 


in people, that was good going. Thar 

Lordships were still teased by 
Paridnsarfs Law; butattfce same time 


At Nato , Thomas had the singidarly 
difficult task of being loyal to the 
British government without being 
disloyal to the Alliance to whose staff 
they had appointed him 


which (fid not distract him from re- 
membering to ftirnk of future proba- 
bilities; because of this, he was 
appointed OBE. Most important, he 
was promoted -there were too many 
deserving candidates to allow for 
many over-zone promotions in those 
days -and it was as a Captain that he 
went to the Ministry of Defence, of 
which he had bappQy seen little so fin; 
to assist in the Polaris development 

Captain Thomas went to sea with 
the Commando assault ship Ffearfess 
before attending the RCDS course 
of 1979; he had passed the RN staff 
course in 1963 and the Joint Services 
counterpart three years later. It 
was then that he was wisely direct- 
ed back to the personnel side of the 
Navy first as Director of Seaman Of- 
ficers’ Appointments (19B0-B2) and 
then, as a Rear Admiral and the 
Naval Secretary, responsible for the 
selection, employment and promo- 
tion of officers of all specialisations. 

His last command at sea was as 


loyal to the British government 
without being disloyal to the Affiance 
to whose staff they had appo inted 
him. Here again the times were; 
■gains t him: resources were scarce 
and dnninishm& and the end of the 
Cold War brought a false optimism 
with which his mifitaiy mind had to' 

■ « Unf 


Thomas was created KEB in 1987; ; 
In 1991 be left the Navy and was ap- ' 


Rod m 1992, a post whkh carried with 


of the House ofLords and Secretary^ 
Hie Lord Great Chanfoeriam. All these 


that the second was moreceremonai- 


were tasked with a stemiy number of 
posts of representational and inter- 
allied commitments for which good 
men had to be found It is a tribute 
to the Admiralty Board’s perspicac- 
ity that there were few occasions 
when it was whispered that perhaps 
there weren't enough good men to go 
round: it is a tribute to Thomas that 
alth ough he was fortunate to be in the 
right place at the right time, he was 
with no doubt (he right man. 

Promoted Vice Admiral, he was 
Deputy Saclant (Supreme Allied 
Commander Atlantic) at Norfolk, Vir- 
ginia (1987-89) and then, an Admiral, 
the UK MHitazy Representative to 
Nato in Brussels. As the Supreme 
Commander was also C in C the US 
Atlantic Fleet, be delegated much of 
the Nato work to Thomas, who was 
hard pressed, especially as military 
resources were becoming scarcer 
while tensions did not diminish. 

At Nato itsd$ Thomas had the 
singularly difficult task of being 

t/ 


tendedancethel6tiicenhii35andnow : 

a staff of 80 deals with all admmista^ 
five weds in the House of Lards. • • 

Richard Thomas was well suited ' 
to lead such a team, and in his- 
tamine proceedings were modified-' 
and modernised. He had a stroke in .. 

1993, which left him with something ; # 
of a limp, but his mind and sense of ■ 

humour were unimpaired, and when 

he returned to work his devotion to 
duty was an example of sel&fiscipline 
much admired. It was the after ef- 
fects which hastened his death this 
month, and shortened his first real 
retirement Hewas appointed KCVO 
when he left Westminster in 1995, and 
the Catholic Church recognised his 
life’s work with a papal knighthood 
in the Order of Pope Pius DC 

A. B. SAITVSBUKY 

W idiom Richard Scott Thomas 
naval officer, bom 22 March 1932; • 

OBE 1974; Directorate cf Naval 
Plans, MaD I974r77; CO HMS Pea r- 
less 1977-78; Director, Office- * 
Appointments (Seamen) 1980-83; . p 
Naval Secretary 1983-85; Flag Offi- 
cer Second Flotilla 2985-87; KGB 
2987; Deputy, Saclant 2987-89; UK 
Military Representative to Nato ■ 
1989-92; GenQeman Usher of the 
Blade Rod, and Serjeant-at-Arms, - 
House tfLOrds, and Secretary to fhe 
Lord Great Chamberlain 1992-95: 

KCVO 1995; married 1959 Paddy . 
Cuflinan ftioo sons, jour dough-: 
ters, and two sons deceased ); died 
13 December 1998. 


Ordonez 


A COUPLE of distinguished, if light- 
hearted. Spanish philosophers 
recently conducted a conference 
entitled “The Bullfighting Art of 
Antonio Orddnez” at Madrid's illus- 
trious Fine Arts Circle. The mata- 
dor himself attended on the last day 
and when the participants had con- 
cluded their analysis of his artistic 
merit, he asked to say a few words. 
He began; •'After listening to these 
friends, who know nothing of bull- 
fighting . . .” 

The exchange- taken m good part 
on all sides - revealed both the 
sharp humour of this hero of what 
Spain's traditional newspapers still 
call the '"fiesta nacionaT, and the 
deep cultural importance that bull- 
fighting still enjoys in Spain. Ordonez 
was one of its last remaining legends. 

He won fame in international lit- 
erary circles m the 1950s through his 
friendship with Orson Welles and 
Ernest Hemingway. But in Spain in 
the 1950s and 1960s he became a 
myth, adored by the public and 
revered fay fallow bullfighters for his 
bravery and the beauty of his art. 

He was bom in the southern 
Spanish town of Honda - bullfight- 
ing’s ancestral home - in 1932, the 
son of Cayetano Orddriez , himself 
a well known bullfighter. Antonio’s 
four brothers, Cayetano, Juan, Fepe 
and Alfonso all became bullfighters. 
Young Antonio faced his first calf in 
1945 and made his ddbut in the suit 
of lights in a corrida in Logrofio, La 


Antonio 


Rioja in 1948. aged 16. He fought 76 
bulls in his first season. A year 
later he suffered his first serious gor- 
ing. in Barcelona. 

In June 1951 he qualified as a 
matador and the following yean in 
a sensational season, he triumphed 
in Spain’s principal bullfighting fes- 
tivals, the Feria of Seville, and the 


San Isidro festival in Madrid He 
fought more than 2,000 bulls during 
30 years. 

In 1953 he married Carmen Gon- 
zalez Lucas, better known as Caroli- 
na Dominguin. daughter of the 
torero Domingo Dominguin and sis- 
ter of three matadors, including the 
most famous of the dynasty, Luis 
Miguel Dominguin, who was for 
years Ordonez’s fiercest rival 

This battle between (he two mata- 
dores in the late Fifties inspired 
Hemingway’s report for Life mag- 
azine that Ire worked up into the book 
The Dangerous Summer. The 


writer who joined the two men’s road 
show, describes their progress from 
bullring to bullring across Spain 
throughout the 1959 season. The 
gruelling schedule prompted Or- 
dortez’s famous remark: ‘mo one can 
become a bullfighter unless he can 
master the art of sleeping in the car”. 

Compared with Dominguin’s 


cold and ruthless technique, Or- 
dofiez, though unaffected and ele- 
gant in style, burned with emotion 
and commitment Hemingway was 
struck by Ordoflez's determined 
passion to win. The writer was 
devastated to learn later that Or- 
dbhez and his brother-in-law had 
hyped up the bitterness of their ri- 
valry for the benefit of the Ameri- 
can public. 

Hemingway came to know Or- 
donez’s father; known as El Nifio de 
la Palma, when he fought at the bull- 
running festival in Pamplona in the 
1920s. Young Antonio called his fa- 


ther’s American friend “Papa 
Ernesto". 

Later he became friendly with 
Orson Whiles, who became so in- 
fatuated with the bullfighting world 
that the film director ordered his re- 
mains to be buried in Ordonez's 
tfinca" in Honda. ‘‘One day HI ex- 
plain how that came about" the bull- 
fighter once promised, but he never 
did explain. 

Orddnez always regretted that a 
bullfighter had no control over the 
beasts he fought especially in im- 
portant bullrings like Madrid. He re- 
called a lunch in Bordeaux In 2952 
with the pianist Artur Rubinstein 
who found it inexplicable that a 
torero could not choose his bulls as 
a pianist chose his piano. Orddnez 
said: “It’s as if someone told Paco de 
Lucia just before a concert ‘Sony, 
not your guitar, this one’." 

He had one brush with death 
away from the bullring. In 1966, 
while driving a car near Cadiz he 
crashed and his passenger was 
killed. Orddnez was tried for homi- 
cide through careless driving, but 
was acquitted. 

Ordonez cut off his pony-tail - as 
the saying goes - on 12 August 1971, 
although he had announced his re- 
tirement io years earlier: He devot- 
ed himself to breeding bulls on the 
ranch he had acquired in 1962, and be- 
came the owner and manager of the 
bullring in Ronda. There he organised 
the annual ^corridas Gayescas" - 


Hemingway was devastated to discover 
that Orddnez and Dominguin had . 
hyped up the bitterness of their rivalry 
for the benefit of the American public 



bullfights in the style and with the cos- 
tumes immortalised by the I8tii -cen- 
tury master Francisco de Goya. 

His two daughters, Carmen 
Cayetana and Ana Belen, each mar- 
ried bullfighters. Last October Car- 
men's son Francisco Rivera, also a 
bullfighter, married Maria Eugenia 
Martinez de Irujo, daughter of the 
Duchess of Alba, one of Spain’s 


grandest grandees, in a wedding 
broadcast live on Spanish television. 
The proud grandfather was too fll 
with cancer to attend. 

The conservative Labour Minis- 
ter Javier Arenas and the Peruvian 
writer Mario Vargas Llosa were 
among those paying respects to Or- 
ddnez whose body Lay in state in 
Seville town hgll yesterday. Later 


this week his ashes will be scattered 
in the arena of Ronda bullring. 

Elizabeth Nash 

Antonio Ordonez Araujo, matador,. - 
bom Ronda, Spain 16 Febniary: 
1932, married 1953 Carmen Gon- 
zalez Lucas (deceased; two dough-: 
ters), 1983 Pilar Lezca.no; diet t 
Seville 19 December 1998. 


Susan Bicknell 



Affinity fbr Bach's music 


SUSAN bicknell was a great 
champion of tbe viola. She per- 
formed the entire repertoire for 
the instrument taught viola with 
great dedication at the Royal 
Junior College of Music and the 
Welsh College of Music and Drama 
and had started to record the 
works of Brahms and Schumann. 
Her need to get as dose as possi- 
ble to the heart of music also led her 
to embrace the period instrument 
movement and she performed fre- 
quently with London Baroque and 
the English Concert. 

She was, with me, a founder 
member of the New Mozart En- 
semble and of the Ftestival de St 
Agrfcve in France, and was a loyal 
and inspiring colleague in cham- 


ber music, contributing many ideas 
and insights to help enrich our 
performances. 

Following her Wigmore Hall 
debut in 1981 Bicknell gave concerts 
all over the world as a soloist, as 
guest with the Chilingirian and Al- 
legri String Quartets, as member of 
the Amati Quartet and with the 
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, 
the English Chamber Orchestra 
and the London Philharmonic. 

She was based in Florence fora 
number of years and on her return 
became principal viola of the Lon- 
don Mozart Players. She also de- 
lighted in opera and was a great 
champion of the now defunct 
Kent Opera which she was deter- 
mined should continue to exist 


despite government axing of its 
funding. 

An eminent viola player Bicknell 
was accepted originally as a violin 
student at the Royal College of 
Music at the early age of 16. She later 
studied in Brussels. It was Orrea 
Pernel, the great Bach specialist, 
who persuaded Bicknell to switch to 
the viola and who became perhaps 
her greatest musical inspiration. 
The great affinity Bicknell felt for 
Bach's music is embodied in the fine 
recording she made of the Cello 
Suites in 1996. 

Here she was satisfied that she 
had made a true musical contribu- 
tion and that she had also united cer- 
tain of her own religious and 
practical ideas in her playing. She 


made sure that proceeds from the 
sale of this CD went to the Edmund 
Emery Find for cancer research, a 
cause which was particularly im- 
portant to her. 

Sue Bicknell was a deeply spiri- 
tual person. Her own Christianity 
sustained her throughout her life as 
did her knowledge of Eastern reli- 
gions, particularly Zen and Tibetan 
Buddhism. She also gained under- 
standing of mathematical philoso- 
phy, Newton's laws and Einstein's 
theories, and delighted in making 
connections with her own artistic 

and spiritual understanding. 

Her range of knowledge and her 
appetfteforftwas wide. Sheread ex- 
tensively not only to English but also 
in French, Italian and ancient Greek, 


which she had studied in order to 
make her own New Testament 
translations. 

MjslvynTan 

Susan Bicknell’s talents as a 
teacher and performer were 
matched by a remarkable gen- 
erosity of spirit, writes Jeffrey 
Tobias. It was typical of her that 
even during her final month of life 
she arranged for her string quartet, 
the Amati, to play at the Middlesex 
Hospital to help raise funds for 
cancer research. 

This late in the day, she could 
barely feel the fingers of her left 
hand yet she somehow retained 
sufficient dexterity to sustain her 
wonderful technique. She never 



complained throughout a lengthy ill- ' V 
ness lasting a decade, and in the lat- ' 
ter years her professional ambition 
if anything seemed to accelerate: ^ 
chamber works, baroque concerts 
and two unforgettable perfor-_ 
mances, as soloist of Berlioz’s 
Harold in Italy. 

Eighteen months before she died, , 
when faced with the inevitable, she r- 
achieved her lifelong wish to tran- 
scribe and record three of the Bach ■■ 
unaccompanied cello suites on the_ 
viola,' leaving us a novel and perma- 
nent insight mto her unique vision. 

Susan Margaret Bicknell, viola 
Player: bam Farhbarough, Surrej^ 
5 August 1948; died London 

November 1998. — 


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A. LEON HIGGINBOTHAM was one of 
the most distinguished American 
jurists of his generation. His life as a 
lawyer was devoted to advancing the 
cause of civil rights and racial integra- 
tion. He personified that cohort of 
African Americans who came of age in 
the United States in the 1950s and 1960s 
when the Supreme Court decision in the 
case of Broum v Board of Education 
was revolutionising race relations. 

Indeed, he was an outstanding ex- 
ample of the whole purpose of integra- 
tion, which was to ensure that a black 
man or woman with the right stuff 
could enjoy the kind of career talented 
white Americans took for granted. Born 
in modest circumstances in Then ton. 
New Jersey in 1928, he went to segre- 
gated schools and won a place in a pre- 
dominantly white college at Purdue. 
Indiana, in 1944. 

Here he experienced the kind of 
crude anti-black discrimination rou- 
tine in all parts of the United States at 
that time. Nevertheless, he graduated 
BA from Antioch in 1949 and took a law 
degree at Yale Law School, where he 
won academic awards, in 1952. Few 
black students at that time graduated 
from such prestigious institutions. 

Seeking work as a lawyer in Philadel- 
phia, he ran into serious discrimination 
for the first time. When one of the city's 
top law firms asked him to attend an in- 
terview, it was dear they had assumed 
*&t a Yale graduate named Higgin- 
ijBtham would be white. The lawyer who 
interviewed him agreed his credentials 
were impressive, but then added, “Of 
course, there’s nothing I can do for you.” 

The “of course” was what hurt and 
what characterised race relations in the 


United States on the eve of the Supreme 
Court’s landmark decision in the Brown 
case, which was published in May 1954. 
This decision, in which the Court voted 
9-0, declared segregated schools un- 
constitutional, undermining segregation 
in eveiy section and region of America, 
not just in education in the South, but 
in housing, employment, politics and the 
law right across the nation 

It took another 20 years for segre- 
gation to end. years of legal and politi- 
cal struggle historians call the civil 
rights movement, and in this struggle 
lawyers like Higginbotham played a cru- 
cial part In 1954 he joined the Philadel- 
phia law firm of Norris, Green, Harris 
& Higginbotham, became the city's as- 
sistant district attorney and then pres- 
ident of the Philadelphia chapter of the 
National Association for the Advance- 
ment of Colored People, which had led 
the struggle to undermine the legal 
basis of segregation in America since 
the 1920s. 

In 1964, President John Kennedy ap- 
pointed him as the first black lawyer to 
serve on the Federal Communications 
Commission. He was 36. Three years 
later, Kennedy's successor, Lyndon 
Johnson, considered putting him on the 
United States Supreme Court in 1967 be- 
fore naming Thurgood Marshall as the 
first African American to serve on the 
highest court in the nation. 

Higginbotham remained an unam- 
biguous champion of integration, which 
had to be enforced by law, but when 
Richard Nixon was president, between 
1969 and 1975, such ideas fell out of 
favour As a lawyer, teacher and legal 
scholar Higginbotham's influence con- 
tinued to increase so that in 1977 Pres- 


ident Jimmy Carta* appointed him to the 
federal district court of appeals in 
Philadelphia, where he could rule on the 
constitutionality of civil cases. 

This date was significant In 1977-78 
the US Supreme Court heard and de- 
cided the landmark case of Regents qf 
the University qf California v Bakka. 
In a divided and complicated decision 
the court ruled 5-4 that, contrary to the 
Brown decision 24 years earlier, edu- 
cational discrimination in favour of 
blacks was still discrimination, and 
that preference systems or admission 
quotas to achieve racial balance on uni- 
versity courses were unconstitutionaL 

This saw the start of a generation in 
which positive discrimination, or affir- 
mative action as it was known, came in- 
creasingly under attack, not least from 
black lancers with conservative views, Eke 
Clarence Thomas, appointed by Presi- 
dent Bush to the US Supreme Court to 
succeed Thurgood Marshall in 199L 

Two years eartiec Higginbotham had 
become chief judge on the Philadelphia 
appeals court and now enjoyed a wide 
reputation as scholar and lawyer When 
Thomas's appointment was confirmed, 
after hearings in which it was alleged 
he had sexually harassed another black 
lawyer named Anita Hill, Higginbotham 
wrote a celebrated open letter to 
Thomas asking him to consider the his- 
torical roots from which American 
racism had grown, and emphasising 
the importance of law in defeating 
racial discrimination. 

Justice Thomas was deaf to such ar- 
guments, as were increasing numbers 
of Americans. The era of universal ac- 
ceptance of affirmative action was oven 
“I witnessed the birth of racial justice 


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Historical notes 

PHYLLIS WlLLMOTT 

Black stockings filled 
with goodies 


Higginbotham (left) applauds as Nelson Mandela holds up his honorary Doctor of Law degree at Harvard University, September 1998 AP 

A. Leon Higginbotham 


in the Supreme Court," Higginbotham 
explained in the New York Times mag- 
azine in January this year. “Now, after 
45 years as a lawyer, judge and law pro- 
fessor, I sometimes feel as if I am 
watching justice die.” This view was 
widely shared by other libera] Ameri- 
cans, whatever the colour of their skin. 

In his last years, Higginbotham's 
Game as a legal scholar and tireless 
advocate of civil rights increased. Thus 
in 1995 he received the Presidential 
Medal of Freedom. America's highest 
civilian honour, while only two weeks 
before he died he was one of a handful 
of Legal scholars asked to testify 
before the House Judiciary Committee 
about the proposed impeachment of 
President Clinton. 

His advice, as in everything he said 
and wrote, was concise and clear Even I 
if Clinton had committed the petjury of I 
which the Starr report indicted him, not 
all perjury was equal under the law. Lies 
about his relationship with Monica 
Lewinsky were more like lies to avoid ! 
a speeding ticket than lies about trea- 
son or bribery, which were impeachable 
offences. Perjury about something 
which was not even a misdemeanour 
could not justify removing a president 
from office. In the next few months we 
shall see whether Congress is as deaf 
to Leon Higginbotham’s advice as Jus- 
tice Thomas was to the advice he re- 
ceived in 1991. 

Patrick renshaw 

Aloysius Leon Higginbotham, lawyer, 
bom Trenton, New Jersey 25 February 
1928: twice married f two sons, two 
daughters); died Boston, Massachu- 
setts 14 December 1998. 


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MY MOTHER was born in 
1892 in the front downstairs 
bedroom of an ancient 
thatched cottage in which 
many generations of agri- 
cultural families must have 
been born, lived out their 
lives and died The cottage 
(which is no longer there) 
was in the centre of the Bed- 
fordshire village of Blun- 
ham. Opposite stood - and 
still stands - the ancient 
church, surrounded by green 
grass and old tombstones. 
Along one side of its enclos- 
ing wall was the lane which 
led under an avenue of lime 
bees, to the banks of the Ivel 
It was a setting that could 
not have changed much since 
Bunyan had applied on behalf 
of a villager he knew for a li- 
cence to preach there in the 
17th century. The villager 
was named John Wright and 
Bunyan had earlier spent 
time with him in Bedford jail 
My mother's parents were 
not natives of Bhxnham, or 
even Bedfordshire. The cou- 
ple had met and married in 
London where she was a 
nurserymaid and he a plate- 
layer on the railways. Their 
union produced 11 children, 
of whom my mother was the 
last but ona By the lime sbe 
was born in the Blunham 
cottage her older brothers 
and sisters had already left 
home, which not only eased 
the sleeping arrangements 
(there was only one upstairs 
bedroom), but of course 
meant fewer mouths to feed. 

It was partly for this reason, 
but also because her father 


had regular and secure em- 
ployment on the railways, 
that my mother could look 
back oin what was for the 
times a relatively affluent 
childhood. Not sufficiently af- 
fluent however to be above 
joining in the gleaning with the 
other villagers after the har- 
vest In my mother’s earliest 
years, some of the flour from 
the gleaning was used to 
make bread for the fiunily, 
which was baked twice a week 
in the “second oven" of the vil- 
lage bakery. The kitchen 
range installed between the 
inglenooks of the o akbeam ed 
fireplace was used for week- 
day dinners: boiled steak and 
kidney pudding with mashed 
potatoes and “greens”, pork 
and onion suet roll “duck-a- 
□othing" (baked chopped 
pork, rice and herbs) or “Bed- 
fordshire clangers". And al- 
ways a pudding- baked rice, 
or more often bread and but- 
ter pudding or boiled treacle 
pudding -to follow. 

It was a heavy diet in 
which tittle food came from 
outside the village, although 
as the century drew to a 
close some new foods -such 
as tinned salmon, treacle and 
Quaker Oats - appeared Ba- 
nanas were a rare treat 
brought by the brothers from 
London; lemons were “never 
seen in the house”, and or- 
anges were a once -a -year 
Christmas luxury. 

One Christmas held a par- 
ticularly vivid memory for 
my mother From an early 
age she had suffered from 
bad earache, and on Christ- 


mas Eve she was crying bit- 
terly with the pain. It was late 
and her mother brought her 
downstairs, for her sisters 
Bertha and Florrie were try- 
ing to sleep in the children's 
bedroom upstairs. Every- 
thing was quiet until there 
was the noise of a cart rum- 
bling by in the dark outside. 
“Listen!" said my grand- 
mother to her sobbing daugh- 
ter; “I do believe that could be 
Father Christmas!" Magi- 
cally, this must haw charmed 
away the pain, for the next my 
mother knew was waking in 
the morning to find her black 
stocking hanging at the end 
of the bed filled with the or- 
ange, nuts, sweets and small 
presents smuggled into the 
cottage by the older children 
in preceding weeks. 

Sadly, not everyone in 
those days could hope for 
black stockings filled with 
goodies. Poverty was as com- 
monly the lot of agricultural 
labourers in Bedfordshire as 
in most other rural areas. My 
mother remembered that 
when the new potatoes came 
in from her father’s allot- 
ment her mother would cook 
a large potful to put out on her 
doorstep for the less fortu- 
nate village children. In the 
winter she would fill her bak- 
ing tins with jacket potatoes. 
From other accounts, it 
seems that this sort of help 
was not at all uncommon. 

Phyllis WStnuM is the author 
qf'From Rural East Anglia to 
Suburban London' (Institute 
qf Community Studies, £9J0» 


Case summaries 


THE FOLLOWING notes of 
judgments were prepared by 
the reporters of the AU 
England Law Reports. 

Release dates 

R v Governor of Wandsworth 
Prison, ex p Sorhaino; QBD 
(Div Ct) (Simon Brown LJ. 
AstiU J) 14 Dec 1998. 

TIME SPENT in custody on 
remand for offence B, whilst 
also detained pursuant to a 
magistrates' court sentence 
for offence A, was not to be 
counted towards the serving of 
the sentence of imprisonment 
for offence B when the sen- 
tence for offence A was 
quashed on appeal before the 
defendant had been sentenced 
to imprisonment for offence 
B. A sentence once quashed 
was not void oh initio: during 
the period of sentence A 
therefore, the applicant was 
not in prison “only” by reason 
of an order of a court made in 
connection with any proceed- 
ings related to sentence B, as 
would be required by s 67(1A) 
of the Criminal Justice Act 
1967 were that period of time 
to count towards sentence B. 
Peter Duffy QC. Rambert de 
MeUo ( Goodall Barnett James, 
Brighton! far the applicant; 
Eleanor Grey (Treasury Solicitor > 
for the respondent 

Road traffic 

DPP v McCarthy, QBD (Div Ct) 
(Simon Brown LJ, Astill J) 14 
Dec 1998. 

A DRIVER having been 
required to stop following 
upon a road traffic act accident 
as defined by s 170(2) of the 
Road Traffic Act 1988 might 
give the address of a third 
party provided the address fill- 
filled the purposes of the sec- 
tion, which was to enable easy 


PRESIDENT CLINTON’S 
repeated assertion about 
an air-strike “to degrade* 
Saddam Hussein might 
sound curious to some 
ears. After all, the despot 
could hardly be any more 
base. In fact, the verb has 
been so consumed' by its 
meaning of to debase that 
this has sidelined its first, 
medieval sense of taking 


21 DECEMBER 1998 

and swift communication 
between the parties to the 
accident. 

James MaxweUScott (E. Edwards 
Son & Noice. Ilford i far the appel- 
lant : John McOmnness (CPS. Wood 
Greens far the prosecution. 

Evidence 

McCauley v Hope (Carry!, third 
party); CA (Butler-Sloss. Potter 
LJJ, Sir Patrick Russell) 8 Dec 
1998. 

WHERE A a plaintiff injured in 
a road traffic accident sought, 
in proceedings against the 
defendant, to rely on the 
defendant’s conviction of dri- 
ving without due care and 
attention, the plaintiff was not 
entitled to judgment under 
RSC Ord 14. The defendant, 
although admitting the con- 
viction, alleged in reliance on 
an expert's report that it was 
erroneous. Section 11(2) of the 
Civil Evidence Act 1968 pro- 
vided the clearest possible 
mandate to a defendant in a 
road traffic accident case to 
attack his earlier conviction, 
provided he had some good 
cause for so doing, and could 
discharge the burden of proof 
to the civD standard. The Ord 
14 process was inappropriate 
in such a case since there 
were serious issues to be tried. 
Elizabeth Gumbel (David Saun- 
ders, Ashford > fir the plaintiff; Ian 
McLaren QC. Douglas Herbert tE. 
Edwards Son & Noice. Ilford) for the 
defendant. 

Discovery 

Dubai Aluminium Co Ltd v A1 
Alawi & ors; QBD. Commercial 
Court (Rix J) 3 Dec 1998. 
Criminal or fraudulent con- 
duct undertaken for the pur- 
poses of litigation fell on the 
same side of the line as advis- 
ing on or setting up criminal or 


fraudulent transactions yet to 
be undertaken, as distinct 
from from the entirely legiti- 
mate professional business of 
advising or assisting clients 
on their past conduct howev- 
er iniquitous. Documents and 
reports generated by such 
criminal or fraudulent conduct 
which were relevant to issues 
in the case were, accordingly, 
discoverable, falling outside 
the legitimate area of legal 
professional privilege. 

Mad: Pelting (Warner Cranston ) 
far the plaintiff. Clive Freedman 
QC. .Alana Gourgey iPhilippsohn 
Cminfirdi BreicaWi /or the first 
defendant. 

SerafteraeBreg 

R v Baker CA fCrim Div) (Pill 
LJ, Turner J. Judge Rant QC) 
15 Dec 1998. 

When imposing a sentence 
longer than one commensu- 
rate with the seriousness of the 
offence in question in order to 
protect the public from serious 
harm from an offender, pur- 
suant to s 2(2) (b) of the Crim- 
inal Justice Act 1991, the 
power of the court to order 
sentences to run consecutive- 
ly was not limited The expres- 
sion “maximum permitted 
sentence” applied to the sen- 
tence for an individual offence, 
and provided that did not 
exceed the permitted maxi- 
mum, there was no obstacle to 
aggregating other sentences 
which did not exceed that 
maximum. Moreover, there 
was no obstacle to exercising 
the power under s 2 ( 2 >(b> in an 
individual sentence imposed 
consecutively to another sen- 
tence on which that power had 
been exercised. 

Michael Thoka iBegistrar of Crim- 
inal Appeals) for the appellant ; 
Brian Altman ( Treasury Solicitor) 
as amicus curiae. 


WORDS 

Christopher 

Hawtree 

degrade, v. 

down a degree or even of 
ousting. Massinger later 
wrote of the way in which 
“thou dost degrade thyself 
of all the hononrs Thy 


ancestors left thee.” In 
each case, the OED last 
dtes Jowett and Cardinal 
Newman, which is lofty 
company for any President 
Incidentally, whenever 
Clinton attends a fundrais- 
er at the Sheraton New York, 
he uses the side-entrance: 
surety a perilous photo-op- 
portunity: it is hard by the 
53rd Street Cigar Bar. 


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A mother’s greatest sacrifice 


Sister Mary Joseph 

1 didn't have a vision or hear 
voices when I got the calling. 
Something just quietly 
changed in my life. I used to 
be quite materialistic and 
loved shopping, especially 
for clothes. But suddenly all these 
things seemed completely unim- 
portant I was brought up in a 
Catholic home with 10 brothers and 
sisters but I wouldn’t say I was par- 
ticularly religious. I went to Mass 
every weds and said my prayers but 
in my teens I was just like any 
othernormal young gLri I wanted to 
leave school go to university and get 
a life. I did quite well at school and 
got into Birmingham University, 
where I studied law. After that I 
joined a legal practice and began my 
law training. 

It was after 1 had been on a trip 
to Lourdes with my mum that I start- 
ed to feel differently. She had always 
wanted to go so it was a bit of a trip 
of a lifetime for her but I didn't re- 
ally think much about it After 1 came 
back and returned to work I start- 
ed going to Mass in my lunch hour; 
which was pretty weird for me. The 
feeling started to grow inside me that 
perhaps I was really cut out for a 
religious life. 

At first I thought it was a phase 
and that it would pass. I started pray- 
ing for guidance and went to see my 
local priest to get advice. 1 thought 
I wouki get some kind of sign or proof 
that I was on the right track. The 
priest said if I was waiting for a fas 
from heaven Td have a long wait as 
God doesn't send faxes! So it was 
quite a long time before I was real- 
ly sure about it 

It has never occurred to me that 
I may have made the wrong decision. 

I never feel I want to be anywhere 
else because 1 am so sure I have cho- 


sen the righ t way of life for me. 
Whereas my motivation before was 
to earn money and have a good time, 
now it is to love God and serve the 
rh»Tr rh i don’t miss anything about 
my old life, neither do I feel that my 
freedom has been curbed. 

Of course, I miss my mum and I 
will he thinking of her at Christmas 
but I am so involved in the life of the 
convent I don't have time to dwell on 
life outside. I have my own room with 
a bed, a desk and my books. I never 
get bored. 

I get up at five in the morning, 
work hard at my housekeeping du- 
ties ail day and go to bed at around 
fl,30pnri The days and weeks literally 
flyby -this will be my third Christ- 
mas in the convent 

Before I joined and I was think- 
ing everything through, it did cross 
my mind that I would never marry 
and have children, which was a 
shame because 1 love children - par- 
ticularly babies. 

But if you have a vocation. God 
does give you the strength to cope. 
Instead of having children of my 
own I have got thousands of children 
in a spiritual sense. In the convent, 
we are like spiritual mothers, pray- 
ing for the souls of all the children 
in the world. 

There is a real sense of asterhood 
in here. I feel that this is now my fam- 
ily because we ail have that spiritu- 
al union and devotion to Christ 

I believe that God has a special 
path for everyone and, at some 
point in any young Catholic's life, 
they question themselves and ask 
whether they want to become a 
priest or a nun. 

It wasn’t a difficult choice for me 
in the end because things seemed 
to miraculously fell into place. All I 
did was pray for discernment and 
everything was revealed. 


A family Affair 

Three years ago Geraldine McGrory, 28 , became a novice in the enclosed Benedictine order 
at Tyburn Convent in London where she is called Sister Mary Joseph. Her mother, Margaret 
McGrory, is a housewife and has 11 children. She lives m a suburb of Birmingham 



A child of God: Sister Mary Joseph and her mother Margaret 


Kalpesh Lathigra 


Margaret 

had very hig h hopes for Geral- 
■ dine because she was a very 
I dever child. She was top of her 
M ninag in everything at schooL 
When she went to university to 

studylawwe were all soprondofhes: 

She did well at law college and then 
began her job in a solicitor’s office. 
She seemed to realty enjoy her 

working fife -she was very popular 

and made Maids easily. 

About three y :ars ago Geral- 
dine came home to visit for the 
weekend. Sie seemed quieter than 
usual and after a while she told us 
she had decided to enter an en- 
closed convent She said she had 
thought long and hard about it but 
she was sure that was what she 
wanted to do with her life. 

At first it was a bit of a shock, and 
I would never have told be* but these 

was a part of me that was a little bit 
disappointed because of what she 
was giving up. I felt she had a good 
career and could go far But I do feel 
very strongly that children should 
follow their own path in life, so I was 
aiso immensely proud of hen In a 
Catholic family as big as ours it’s 
considered almost an honour if one 
of your children gets the calling. I 
suppose you could say that I bad se- 
cretly harboured some hopes that 
one of mine would have a vocation. 

Although we are a very strong 
Catholic family and go to church 
every week, none of our other chil- 
dren has ever shown the slightest 
desire to go into the Church. Infect, 
they were probably more shocked 
about Geraldine’s decision than I 
was. They had never come into con- 
tad; with nuns and, like many peo- 
ple who only ever see them on the 
television, probably thought of teem 
as figures of fun. Now that they have 
seen her way of life they realty 


appreciate what she is doi ng. 

I missed Geraldine dreadfully 
when she first went in. I still keep 
her bedroom just as she left it Some 

people might think it’s like a shrine 

to her. But it doesn’t feel like that 
I never entertained any hopes that 
she would come back but I just 
couldn’t bring myself to change 
anything. Her books are arranged 
just as they were. I go in now and 
then and sit quiettyand have a read. 
It me feel dose to bee 

It’s hard for any mother to come 
to terms with the feet that their 
daughter is nhles away and can’t just 
getaway when she wants. I can’t just 
pop up and see her for a cup of tea 
when I want to. I can't phone her up 
fore chat like other mothers da But 
I do respect the feet that she has 

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al though our relationship is now 
quite restrictive, it is worth any 
sacrifices I have had to make. We 
visit her once a month and she 
writes us lovely letters. 

There is an inner happiness 
about Geraldine now that I can’t ex- 
plain. Looking back; I think she 
was probably quite stressed when 
she was working. She worried end- 
lessly about the state of the world. 
She felt she wanted to do something 
positive to hety. Sbe realty has a veiy 
strong belief that dedicating her life 
to God will make a difference. Con- 
vent life suits her very welL She is 
fall of joy and although I know that 
if she dedded tomorrow that she had 
chosen the wrong path she could 
leave, I don't think she will She is 
very strong-willed and knows her 
own mind. But if she ever changed 
her mind she knows that we will al- 
ways be there for her and support 
her in her choice. 

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Why Christmas always turkeys in America 


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ONE OF the many small 
mysteries I hoped to resolve 
when I first moved to England 
was this: when British people 
sang “A-Wassailing We’ll Go”, 
where was it they went and what 
exactly did they do when they 
got there? 

Throughout an American 
upbringing I heard this song 
every Christmas without ever 
finding anyone who had the 
faintest idea of how to go about 
the obscure and enigmatic 
business of wassailing. Given the 
perky lilt of the carol and the 
party spirit in which it was 
always sung, it suggested to my 
youthful imagination rosy- 
cheeked wenches bearing flagons 
of ale in a scene of general 
merriment and abandon before a 
blazing yule log in a hall decked 
with holly - and, with this in 
mind, I looked forward to my 
first English Christmas with a 
certain frank anticipation. In my 
house, the most exciting thin g 
you could hope for in the way of 
seasonal recklessness was being 
offered a cookie shaped like a 
Christmas tree. 


So you may conceive my 
disappointment when my first 
Christmas in England came and 
went and. not only was there no 
wassailing to be seen, but no one 
J quizzed was any the wiser as to 
its arcane and venerable secrets. 
In fact, in nearly 20 years in 
England I never did find anyone 
who had ever gone a-wassailing. 
at least not knowingly Nor. while 
we are at it, did I encounter any 
mumming, still less any hodening 
ia kind of organised group 
begging for coins with a view to 
buying drinks at the nearest 
public house, which I think is an 
outstanding idea), or many of the 
other traditions of an English 
Christmas that were expressly 
promised in the lyrics of carols 
and the novels of Jane Austen 
and Charles Dickens. 

It wasn’t until I happened on a 
copy of TG Crippen’s scholarly 
and ageless Christmas and 
Christmas Lore, published in 
London in 1923, that I finally 
found that wassail was originally 
a salutation. From the Old Norse 
ves hei Z, it means “in good 
health". In Anglo-Saxon times, 


according to Crippen, it was 
customary for someone 
offering a drink to say “Wassail!” 
and for the recipient to respond 
“Drinkhail!” and for the 
participants to repeat 
the exercise until comfortably 
horizontal. 

It is clear from Crippen’s tome 
that in 1923 this and many other 
agreeable Christmas customs 
were still commonly encountered 
in Britain. Now, alas, they appear 
to be gone for good. 

Even so, Christmas in Britain 
is wonderful, far better than in 
America, and for all kinds of 
reasons. To begin with, in Britain 
- or at least in England - you still 
pretty much pack all your festive 
excesses (eating, drinking, gift- 
giving, more eating and drinking) 
into Christmas, whereas we in 
America spread ours out over 
three separate holidays. 

In America, the big eating 
holiday is Thanksgiving, at the 
end of November. Thanksgiving 
is a great holiday - probably the 
very best holiday in America, if 
you ask me. (In case you’ve 
always wondered, it 



BRYSON’SH 

AMERICA 


commemorates the first harvest 
feast at which the pilgrims sat 
down with the Indians to thank 
them for all their help and tell 
them: "Oh, and by the way, we’ve 
decided we want the whole 
country”) It is a great holiday 
because you don't have to give 
gifts or send cards or do anything 
hut eat until you begin to look 
like a balloon that has been left 
on a helium machine too long. 

The trouble is that it comes 
less than a month before 
Christmas. So when, on 25 
December, Mom brings out 
.another turkey, you don’t go, 


“Turkey', yippeee!" but rathen 
“Ah, t u rk e y again is it. Mother?" 
Under such an arrangement 
Christmas dinner is bound to 
come as an anticlimax. 

Also. Americans don't drink 
much at Christmas, as a rule. 
Indeed. I suspect most people in 
America would think it feintty 
unseemly to imbibe anything 
more than, say, a small sherry 
before lunch on Christmas Day. 
Americans save their large-scale 
drinking for New Year's Eve. 

Noe come to that do we have 
many of the standard features of 
Christinas that you take for 
granted. There are no Christinas 
pantomimes in America. No 
mince pies, and hardly any 
Christmas puddings. There’s no 
bell-ringing on Christinas Eve. 
No crackers. No big double issue 
of the Radio Times. No brandy 
butter. No little dishes full of 
nuts. No hearing "Merry Xmas 
Everybody" by Slade at least 
once every 20 minutes. Above aT 
there is no Boxing Day. 

On 26 December; everybody in 
the United States goes back to 
work. In fact Christmas as a 


noticeable phenomenon pretty 
well ends about midday on 25 
December There’s nothing 
special on TV and most large 
stores and shopping malls now 
open for the afternoon (so that 
people can exchange all the 
things they got but didn’t want). 
You can go to the movies on 
Christmas Day in America. You 
can go bowling. It doesn’t seem 
right somehow. 

As for Boxing Day, most 
people in America have never 
heard of it or at best have only 
the vaguest idea of what it is. It 
may surprise you to hear, 
incidentally, that Boxing Day is 
actually quite a modem 
invention- The Oxford. English 
Dictionary can trace the term 
back no further than 1849. Its 
roots go back at least to medieval 
times, when it was the 
custom to break open church 
aims boxes at Christinas and 
distribute the contents to the 
poor but as a holiday Boxing Day 
only dates from the last century, 
v Uch explains why you have it 
and >73 don't 

Personally, I much prefer 


Boxing Day to Christmas, largely 
because it has all the advantages 
of Christmas (lots of food and 
drink, general good will towards 
all, a chance to doze in an - 
armchair during da ylight hours) 
without any of the disadvantages 
- like spending hours on the floor 
trying to assemble doll's houses 
and bicycles from instructions 
written in Taiwan, or the uttering 
of false professions of gratitude _ 
to Aunt Gladys for a hand-knitted 
jumper that even Gyles 
Brandreth wouldn’t wean (“No 
honestly, Glad, I've been looking 
everywhere for a jumper with a 
unicorn motif.") 

No, if there is one thing I miss 
from England it’s Boxing Day. 
That and, of course, hearing 
“Merry Xmas Everybody" by 
Slade over and over Apart from 
anything else, it makes you 
appreciate the rest of the year so 
much more. 

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describe the potential 
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will have in handling the 
date change on l January 
2000. The problem 
originated in the Sixties and 
Seventies when computer 
programmers, to save 
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practice of referring to 
years by their last two digits 
rather than by all four “98", 
rather than “1998”. 

As a consequence, some 
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to tell the difference 
between the year 2000 and 
the year 1900, because both 
figures have 00 as their last 
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that some computers and 
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millennium. Most new 
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What may be 
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Time is ticking away inside 
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Heartache 

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trying to get everyone to 
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Electronic equipment 
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machines, photocopiers, fire 
alarms, security systems, 
medical equipment, air 
conditioning, heating 
systems, drainage, water; 
sewerage and lifts can all 
contain microprocessors 
which may be affected by 
the date change. 

Organisations which 
depend on services such as 
water gas and electricity 
may be affected by failures 
in their supply chain even if 
their own internal systems 
are 2000-compliant 

What you can do 

Most problems will occur 
around the millennium date 
change The Government 
has set up a scheme called 
Action 2000 to prepare 
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for the mill e nnium Call 
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0845 6012000. Contact your 
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■ Keep your financial 
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■ Keep a record (dates and 
amounts) of wage 
payments, direct debits. 


mortgage repayments and 
policy renewal dates which 
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back to if you have a 
problem in 2000. 

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with “00" expiry date, keep 
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statements. 

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them what measures they 
are taking. Keep your utility 
bills so that you have proof 
of meter readings, in case 
there are problems with 

h illing in 2000. 

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Policies are designed to 
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and predictable, though 
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are not Speak to your 
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The king of 
St Helens 

The Johnny Vegas Television Shoiv is about to arrive 
in your living room. It’s the most instantly legendary 
comedy moment since Father Ted. By Ben Thompson 





I f you've never seen Johnny 
Vegas live, you will need to 
be convinced that a 28-year- 
old failed potter can mould 
an audience in his hands 
with die suppleness and ap- 
plication of a master craftsman. By 
sheer force of personality, this emo- 
tional volcano from St Helens - his 
fleshy slopes tattooed with rivulets 
of bee c, sweat and clay -persuades 
women to let him kiss them and men 
to give him their designer shirts to 




clothe his nakedness. He reflects 
people’s anxiety back at them 
through the distorting mirror of his 
own desperation, and they watch 
¥ spellbound as he overcomes the 
class divide with an uplifting chorus 
of the -Hokey Cokey”. 

Even those who have seen Johnny 
Vegas bend a crowd to his will might 
still be wondering how he can suc- 
cessful^ transfer to TV whK^ the key 
element of the Vegas live experience 
- the fact that the audience are shut 
in a room with him and can’t escape 
because they've paid - is no longer 
a factor Rirthernwre,in small screen 
terms, several aspects of the Vegas 
persona look naggingly familiar 
The travails of bottom flight show- 
business have already been ex- 
plored by such able prospectors as 
Tommy Cockles, John Shuttleworth 
and Alan Partridge. The thin line 
. between acting drunk and actually 
-J&eing drunk is hardly new ground 
either. But the rich ore Vegas 
extracts is all the more valuable for 
coming from such a well-mined 
seam. And the one-off d£but of The 


JohnnyVegas l&evisionShow (with 
a series to follow some time next 
year; is the most instantly legendary 


TV comedy moment since the first 
episode of Father Ted. Think Les 
Dawson at his best, think John 
Kennedy Toole’s literary master- 
piece Confederacy qfDunces trans- 
lated to a small northern boating 
lake, think a blow-up model of 
Jonathan Creeps Alan Davies being' 
inflated by an automatic balloon 
pump. The Johnny Vegas Television 
Show suggests all these things. 

Resplendentiy out of place in a 
bustling west London champagne 
ban Johnny Vegas’s representative 
on earth - 28-year-old foiled potter 
Michael Pennington - reflects on all 
the different ways it could have 
gone wrong. More sober in dress and 
demeanour than his flamboyantly 
flared and car-coated creation. Pen- 
nington shares Vegas's gift for 
rhetoric, and his Lancashire accent 
is as rich as a well-made Ecdes cake. 

The question was, how did we get 
Johnny on TV without making Urn 
a TV person?" Pennington says. 
“We didn't want to make a mock 
documentary. This is how he lives. 
Vfe didn't want to do a stand-up show 
because Johnny Vegas is not a pre- 
senter he's a very sad bloke who 
lives on his own who's an alcoholic 
Every now and then he ventures into 
the world and he’s very, very bitter.’' 

The reason The Johnny Vlegas 
Television Show succeeds where so 
many other attempts to translate 
Edinburgh Festival hits to TV have 
fail ed , is that it manag e to establish 
its own integrity rather than shoe- 
horning a well-honed dub act into an 
inappropriate new format. 

“This is the dark years," Pen- 
nington ex plains, “the bit that never 
gets explained.” 


The cameras follow \fegas around 
his hometown of St Helens with 
occasional flashbacks to his glory 
days at Butlin’s in Skegness. 

*T never wanted personally to 
laugh at St Helens,” Pennington 
insists, “because I live there, but this 
is the only place on earth where 
Johnny can exist: wfaen we were film- 
ing, nobody said: ’What are you 
doing stood there looking like that?’ 
All we'd get was: ‘I haven't got time,' 
on "Sony son, I think you’re drunk.’ " 

We see Johnny hassling a hapless 
entertainments secretazy at bis local 
labour dub, Johnny hassling an ice 
cream man, Johnny chased by a kite. 

“There’s something of a care-in- 
th e-coram unity element to it” 
Pennington explains. “You look at 
Johnny and think- *Why is somebody 
not looking after him during the 
day?’ " The feeling we wanted to get 
was: You shouldn't be laughing at 
this, but.. Some people think it's too 
dark, but it couldn't be too dark.” 

Almost as compelling as Vegas’s 
whirlpool of misplaced moral energy 
(“I deserve to be loved!”) is the 
unforced naturalism of the people he 
comes up against The secret otThe 
Johnny Vegas Show’s imposingly 
realistic collection of ice cream men 
and park keepers is that they are ice 
cream men and park keepers. 

“People have said: ‘What's he 
been in before? I know I’ve seen him 
in something,’ And we’re like: You 
haven't he's an ice cream man from 
St Helens.’” 

If Pennington’s primary motiva- 
tion was not so obviously compas- 
sion, there might be a hint of Jeremy 
Beadle in all this. As it is. The 
Jcfonny Vegas Tsleihsion Show offers 



us not just a welcome riposte to the 
endless search fra* “characters” in 
documentazy series whose inter- 
mingling of show-business and re- 
ality is demeaning to both, but also 
arevolution in TV's approach to the 
ordinary. “There’s somebody like 
Johnny in everybody’s community” 
Pennington izisists. “Hus person 
talking to you who you think is a nut- 
ter quite possibly was Butlins boy 
number one at some point - all he 
wanted to do was make people 
happy and he's been denied that” 


Would it be fair to suggest there 
might be a political element to all of 
this? “I'd like to think it’s a com- 
mentary, without being a lecture.” 

Perhaps this is why, where other 
comedians talk in terms of being true 
to comic traditions- Peter Sellers or 
Monty Python or whoever - 
Pennington talks about his work in 
terms of being true to the spirit of 
people in pubs. He stopped watch- 
ing other people's comedy when he 
started to do his own. 

Tm always wary of aspiring to be 


like someone else. It’s like you’re in 
a shop and you cant afford the stuff 
so you look at a teapot and think: Til 
go home and make my own,' and you 
do it and it looks nothing like the one 
you wanted, so why waste your 
time? Why not put your energy into 
making a teapot of your own?” 

That teapot is on display now, and 
it’s a lovely piece of work. 

The Johnny Vegas Television Show ’ 
is on Channel 4 this Sunday, 27 
December, at 10.30pm 


This Was The 
Week that Was 

Today In 1937 the first full- 
length colour cartoon was 
premiered: Disney's Snow 
White and the Seven 
Dwarfs, which six decades 
later is still turning up at a 
multiplex near you, (Unlike 
Peludopolis, the first black- 
and-white cartoon talkie, a 
political satire on a 
forgotten president of 
Argentina.) 

Tomorrow The first 
revolving stage began 
whizzing around in 1758: 
wisely, it was extremely 

s mall -scale, at Kado-za Doll 

Theatre. Osaka. Japan. 

Wednesday In 1888 the big 
news in art was that Van 
Gogh cut off his ear; he was 
depressed, not least 
because Gauguin was 
leaving their lodgings in 
Arles to escape the winter 
(and possibly Vincent's 
company). 

Christmas Eve In 1922 
The Truth about Father 
Christmas, the first play 
written for the wireless, by 
Phyllis M Twigg, became a 
branch of radio history. In 
1974 the Christmas spirit 
did not extend to The 
Beatles: the Flab Fbur 
became four Fhb Ones. 

Christmas Day It wasn’t 
until 1843 that Mitchell's 
Olympic Theatre in New 
York worked out what to do 
with a stage empty all day: 
they put on a matinee. 

Boxing Day Britain's first 
ever pantomime was 
Harlequin Executed, at 
Lincoln's Inn Fields 
Theatre in 1717. Oh no it 
wasn’t! Oh yes it was! 

Sunday In 1904 Peter Pan 
opened in London, with 
Gerald du Mauri er as 
Captain Hook. In Dublin the 
first state-subsidised 
theatre, the Abbey, 
presented plays by Lady 
Gregoiy and Mr Yeats. 

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The Independent 21 Dc^ante* 1998 



NETWORK 

The links that will 

revolutionise PCs 

Faster access to the Internet plus cheap and efficient networking could 
radically alter the way we use computers. By Stephen Pritchard 


borne of the future win 
* ■ Ibe as connected, or per- 
il haps even better connect- 

■ ed, than most of today’s 

■ offices, if the predictions erf 

JL Eric Benhamou. SCom's 

president and chief executive officer 
prove to be true. 3Com is one of the 
world leaders in computer networking 
equipment and, since its purchase of US 
Robotics last year; in modems, too. Ac- 
cording to maitet research, 3Com is cme 
of the most recognised computing 
brands in the United States. The com- 
pany’s public perception ranks along- 
side Hewlett-Packard - and even above 
that of Microsoft. 

3Com was founded in 1979 in Cali- 
fornia; the company pioneered the eth- 
emet networking standard. Ethernet is 
now used in offices worldwide, but in 
1979, the idea of a PC, let alone a group 
of PCs that could share information, was 
very much in its infancy. In the last two 
decades, computer networks have be- 
come big business. Cheap and efficient 
networking helped the PC take on 
mainframe computers, and win. More 
recently, computer networks, in the 
form of the Internet, have started to cap- 
ture the public imagination. The Net pro- 
vides companies such as 3Com with an 
enormous, uncaptured market 

Computer users’ desires for foster; 
smoother Internet access is a key dri- 
ver of 3Com 's success. The company has 
been at the forefront of developing 
more powerful modem technologies. 
Today's 56k modems are four times as 
fast as the standard modem three years 
ago, but they cost less. 3Com is heavi- 
ly involved in developing devices to con- 
nect computers to cable networks, 
emerging technologies such as DSL 
(Digital Subscriber Line) and ISDN. It 
also makes connectors for GSM mobile 
phones and the RAM wireless data net- 
work. "The demand for fester Internet 
access is driven by many of the same 
applications we use now: e-mail with at- 
tachments, Web browsing, and re- 
search," Mr Benhamou says. “Some of 
the new applications that come to life 
are streaming audio and video, either 
video conferencing, or video on de- 
mand. There are over 10,000 radio sta- 
tions on the Internet today broadcasting 
audio content With foster connections, 
it's likely that we will see digital audio 
sites that stream CD-quality audio into 
the home in the background while 
you’re surfing the Web or e-mailing." 

DSL, including the version BT is cur- 
rently testing in west London, is an “al- 
ways on" technology. Computers are 
permanently connected to the Internet 
and there are no time-based charges for 
that connection. This feature, Mr Ben- 
hamou believes, will open up the real po- 
tential of the Internet for homes. “The 
Internet becomes for more compelling 
with persistent connections," he says. 

ffcster access, suggests Mr Ben- 
hamou, will encourage us to rethink the 
way we use our computers, and the way 
they talk to each other In developed 
computer markets, such as the United 
States, Germany and the UK. Ben- 
hamou points out, there are already 
multi-PC households. Sometimes tins is 


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because one or more family members 
work from home. Sometimes, house- 
holds upgrade, but keep their old PCs. 
Sometimes it stems from adults want- 
ing to reclaim the PC from their kids. 
3Com estimates that around 60 percent 
of PCs sold through retailers go into 
homes that already have a computer 
It makes far more sense to connect 
all the computers in a home to the In- 
ternet through a single, powerful con- 
nection than by attac h ing a relatively 
slow modem to each PC and a phone 
line. It is also much more economical. 
BTs trial, for example, costs £30 a 
month for connection and the hardware. 
3Com’s solution to sharing that band- 
width - or the comparable technology 
from cable companies - is through a 
mini-network in the home. Mr Ben- 
hamou points to an increasing number 
of property developers who are build- 
ing flexible network cables into their 
house designs in the US and Europe. 
3Com is also a key member of consor- 
tia that are developing networking tech- 
nologies that will deliver either 1Mbps 
or 10Mbps - the same speed as ether- 
net - over domestic phone cables or 
mains electric wiring. Mr Benhamou ex- 
pects products to hit the market in 1999, 
and prices to start at little more than $20. 

“Home networking can deliver on this 
tremendous opportunity for multi-PC 
households to share files, peripherals 
and an Internet connection via low-cost 
networking solutions," Mr Benhamou 
says. “Our HomeConnect brand will de- 
liver products that allow multi-PC con- 
nectivity within the home and out to the 


Internet enabling a range of new ap- 
plications like streaming multimedia." 

Mr Benhamou predicts that foiling 
PC prices wifi help the Internet to 
reach more homes, but his vision is not 
restricted to PCs. Away from the busi- 
ness market developments such as In- 
ternet-based broadcasting or video on 
demand will encourage households to 
go online. It will also fuel development 
of Internet access devices that bear lit- 
tle resemblance to conventional PCs. 


There are over 10,000 
radio stations on the 
Internet today 
broadcasting audio 
content 


Mr Benhamou believes the juiy is stffl 
out on concepts such as Microsoft- 
backed web TV but he can see the huge 
potential of devices which deliver In- 
ternet connectivity to the home TV set, 
especially for applications such as elec- 
tronic banking or travel bookings. As im- 
portant, he predicts, will be advances 
based around the telephone and hand- 
held computers. 3Com is already the 
leader in the palmtop market with its 
Palm range of “connected organisers". 

In July this year; 3Com entered into 
an alliance with Siemens, creating a joint 
venture that will integrate computer 


communications with telephony. Hie 
Siemens alliance gives 3Com valuable 
access to technologies more often as- 
sociated with telecommunications. The 
joint venture is developing systems 
that integrate data voice and video over 
single networks. 

Phone handsets will become 
creasmgfy important ways to access the ' 
Internet too. Smartphones with built-in 
displays offer a low-cost way to connect 
households, especially to e-mafl. Mobile 
phones will play their part, as will inte- 
grated mobile devices. In the US, 3Com 
has just announced the Palm 7, which 
has built-in access to the RAM network. 
In Europe, there will be a version built 
around GSM, and 3Com expects to de- 
velop organisers based around the Blue 
Tooth wireless communications system 
that is backed by companies suctfr'> 
Intel, TDK and Nokia. T*-' 

“The home network: becomes the 
platform for these devices co-existing 
within the home," says Mr Benhamou. 
“We anticipate that set-top boxes, 
smartphones, PCs and devices like the 
Pahn will have network connections that 
will allow them to share information and 
Internet access within the home. “Think 
of what happened with electricity" he 
adds. “No one imagined they’d have 
hair-dryers or toasters when they wired 
the early homes. But the utility of 
power caused technology to take ad- 
vantage of electricity. With an pnahling 
“utility” like a home network, appliances* 
will spring up to keep consumers mo& 
connected to the people and information 
that matter to them." 



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AN INITIATIVE to develop a 
new secure method of 
distributing music over the 
Internet was announced last 
week in New York by the 
Recording Industry 
Association of America 
(RIAA); chief executives of 
the major US record firms, 
and representatives of 
technology firms such as 
AOL (which now owns 
CompuServe), Diamond 
Multimedia, Microsoft, 
RealNetworks, IBM 
and AT&T. 

Work on the “Secure 
Digital Music Initiative" is 
set to get under way next 
year and will address the 
lack of compatibility 
between current competing 
- technologies such as Liquid 
Audio and a2b, as well as 
the potential piracy 
problems and lack of 
copyright control associated 
with the de facto standard 
MP3 that is established 
among Net users. 

The new standard will 
aim at developing a means 
of digital distribution to 
protect copyrighted 
m aterial and allow labels 
and artists to engage in 
online commerce. 


Record company 
executives said they did not 
envisage the new format 
bringing about lower prices. 

However some 
companies said that the 
industry response to MP3 is 
too little and too late. “MP3 
is unstoppable. Any 
initiative now is like 
launching Betamax two 
years after VHS has become 
the standard," said Robert 
Kohn, the chairman of the 
independent music 
company, Goodnoise. “The 
real solution to piracy is to 
make music cheaper to buy 
than it is to steal." 


THE JUDGE presiding over 
the Microsoft anti-trust trial 
in Washington said last 
week that AOL's proposed 
$4J2bn buy-out of Netscape 
Communications and its co- 
operative deal with Sun 
Microsystems may have an 
“immediate effect" on the 
case. Microsoft’s lawyers 
requested that in light of 
the proposed merger, the 
judge re-open the evidence- 
gathering phase of the trial. 
Judge Thomas Penfield 
Jackson said he was 


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reluctant to allow this, but 
suggested instead that 
Microsoft be given a look at 
any documents gathered by 
the government in a review 
of the merger. 

“It seems the 
Department of Justice 
would be in possession of 
the operative documents 
ffor the merger) and that 
Microsoft may have a right 
to review the terms," 
Jackson said. "It could have 
an immediate affect on the 
definition of the market as 
we are contemplating 
it here." 

In a separate court case, 
Microsoft said it will appeai 
against a preliminary 
injunction requiring it to 
modify or withdraw some 
software products while it 
fights the lawsuit brought 
against it by Sun over its 
use of the Java 
programming language. 


TALKS IN London between 
US Commerce Department 
and State Department 
officials and members of 
Privacy International tPli, a 
civil rights group based in 
the United Kingdom and 


Washington, about an EU 
privacy directive, ended in 
stalemate last week. The 
directive, set to become law 
in all EU states, will give 
individuals control over 
their personal data and stop 
database-marketers, 
websites, credit card 
companies and others from 
exchanging personal data 
with countries that do not 
provide “adequate” 
protection of the data. 

lb prevent US 
companies’ data transfers 
from being halted by the 
EU, the Clinton 
administration has 
proposed “safe harbours”, 
based on self-regulation 
privacy guidelines used by 
commercial sites, such as 
notifying people about 
policies on collecting data; 
providing “opt out" 
facilities, and disclosing to 
whom the firm passes on 
the data. PI said the plans 
were not satisfactory and 
that Europe should not bend 
the rules to accommodate 
the US. 


3DBt INTERACTIVE, the 
games chip manufacturer; 


announced that it will buy 
the graphics-card maker 
STB for The deal is 
expected to be finalised in 
March. STB's operations 
will remain based in 
Richardson. Texas, with the 
combined company 
headquarters at SDfx's 
office in San Jose, 
California 

3D£x said that W illiam 
Ogle, the president and 
chief executive of STB, 
would join its board. Gordon 
Campbell will remain as 
chairman of 3D&. 

Following the purchase, 
the company will 
manufacture entire 3D 
accelerator cards, rather 
than just the graphics chips. 
A new board based on its 
Voodoo3 chip will be 
produced 3Dfx said the 
deal would provide its 
customers with a single 
source for its 3D graphics 
technology. 

Although it intends to 
carry on supplying chips to 
Quantum 3D, which makes 
cards for arcade machines, 
it will probabfy stop 
supplying other PC card 
producers such as Creative 
and Diamond. 


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Dancer DNA blends an ol tra-Darwinist theory with high-speed computer graphics 

Morphing to the 
sound of a hi-hat 

Virtual DNA is the inspiration behind a new graphics package. By Matt Jones 

U ntil recent- a sound system and projector, DNA and the binary informa- allows the user to specify dif- to whatever music you have 
fy the only it provides a mesmerising light- tion storage systems used by a ferent parts of the music that it your CD drive. Customisu 
use for a show that is a perfect comple- computer were very similar; responds to (hi-hats, vocals, the spedes couldn’t be easii 
PC in a ment to the sensory overload of “Instead of just the two states bass, etc) to trigger different e£- — the cut'n’paste method e 
nightclub the leading London dubs. 1 and 0, the information tech- fects. so the package can be pro- sures that new str ains can 1 
was to What is most surprising, nology of living cells uses four grammed to accompany certain easily created and mutated, 
count the though, is that the inspiration states... There is very little traris. Dance music, with its de- Dancer DNA has alreat 


U ntil recent- 
ly the only 
use for a 
PC in a 
nightdub 
was to 
count the 
takings at the end of the night 
However; with their powerful 
graphics capabilities, they are 
now branching out into the 
entertainment side - not as 
games machines but alongside 
the light and laser systems of 
a dub’s visual arsenal. 

Dancer DNA is a new soft- 
ware package that uses a “vir- 
tual DNA” string to create 
kaleidoscopic virtual lifeforms 
-z.3* mutate and grow in re- 
sponse to music. Hooked up to 


a sound system and projector; 
it provides a mesmerising light- 
show that is a perfect comple- 
ment to the sensory overload of 
the leading London dubs. 

What is most surprising, 
though, is that the inspiration 
for the software comes not 
from some hardcore clubber 
but from the leading evolu- 
tionary biologist Richard 
Dawkins, who was collaborat- 
ing on a multimedia CD with 
Dancer DNAs creators, Notting 
Hill Publishing, the electronic 
publishing company created 
by Andreas Whittam Smith, 
the founder and former editor 
of this newspaper 

In The Blind Watchmaker 
Dawkins theorised that human 


DNA and the binary' informa- 
tion storage systems used by a 
computer were very similar 
“Instead of just the two states 
1 and 0. the information tech- 
nology of living cells uses four 
states... There is very little 
difference, in principle, be- 
tween a two-state binary in- 
formation technology like 
ours, and a four-state informa- 
tion technology like that of the 
Irving cell." 

Dancer DNA blends this 
ultra-Darwinist theory with 
high-speed computer graphics. 
Just about everything is cus- 
tomisable, from a creature’s 
rate of morphing and spin to the 
threshold at which the effects 
take hold. A frequency analyser 


allows the user to specify dif- 
ferent parts of the music that it 
responds to (hi-hats, vocals, 
bass, etc) to trigger different ef- 
fects, so the package can be pro- 
grammed to accompany certain 
tracks. Dance music, with its de- 
fined peaks and troughs, is the 
ideal soundtrack to Dancer 
DNA; although it gave inter- 
esting results with many other 
genres, including heavy metal 
and country and western - as 
demonstrated at a recent show 
at the ICA in London. 

There are 15 species pro- 
vided on the CD, with more 
available from the Dancer DNA 
website. A few mouse dicks cre- 
ates a “genespace" for your 
species and gets them dancing 


to whatever music you have in 
your CD drive. Customising 
the species couldn’t be easier 

— the cut’n’paste method en- 
sures that new strains can be 
easily created and mutated 

Dancer DNA has already 
strutted its virtual stuff at the 
Blue Note, Orb and the End 
clubs in London, as well as on 
the BBC’s Clothes Show, and is 
set to perform alongside New 
Order and Underworld at the 
Alexandra Palace New Year's 
Eve spectacular. Entertain- 
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THERE IT was, again, in my 
e-mail inbox. Fbr the fourth 
time in a few weeks, bene 
was an e-mail with no 
subject or message text 
£ Like most people. I'm not 
Tiond of spammers. In fact 
they drive me nuts. My old 
Internet connection was 
usage-based, meaning that 
the bill went up for every 
piece of spam received or 
transmitted through the 
gulker.com domain. When 
spammers hijacked my mail 
server earlier this yean I got 
downright testy. 

As competition has 
driven down the price of 
spam software and mailing 
lists, the quality of spam has 
fallen tremendously, if you 
can accept the notion of 
^“quality” and “spam” in the 
raune phrase. 

Spammers who misspell 
their pitch - in the subject 
line, no less - have become 
routine. Recent offerings 
include “aprodesiac", “debt 
to high", “risk fee!”, “for are 
clients", “frequent asked 
questions", “hot address's", 
and “co-branbing program". 
Worse, lately not a few 
spammers who clog 
bandwidth with hundreds of 
thousands of missives have 
somehow neglected to 
actually include a message. 

What, I wonder, prompts 
a person to go to the effort 
of buying spam software, 
sign up for an Internet 
account that will be 
suspended immediately 
after the first spam (at a 
loss of set-up charges and 
fest month’s fees), and then 
Tfget to include a message? 
Are a few of us m the spam 
community running a few 


packets short of a 
datagram? 

So, to get back to my tale, 
here it was, the fourth 
subject-less, text-less 
message in a row. I figured 
it was spam, for sure. 
Curiously, this latest one 
had an attachment 
“noticeitm", which 
contained the following; 

PGhObWw+ PHNjcmlwdCBs 
YW5ndWFnZT0iamF2YXNjc 
mlwdCI+bmFtZT0id2JueHoi 
Ozwvc2 NyaXBOPgOKPGZyY 
W1 lc2VOIHJvd3M9]jEvyJSw 
q I j A 8ZnJ hbWUgc3J jPSJ odR 
wOi8veHpsMy55ZWFoLm5I 
dClgbmFtZT0ibGR4eHgbm9 
y ZXNpem Ugc2 Nyb2xsaW 5 n 
PW5vPgOKPGZyYWl IIHNyY 
z0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy56aGF 
uamlhbmcuZ2QuY24vbmV0 
aG9tZS9zdXNpL3N6eC9pb 
mRleC5odG0iIG5vcmVzaXpl 
!HNjcm9sbGluZz1 ubz^NCj 
wvZnJh b WVzZXQ + PC9odG 
TsPg= = 

Why, 1 wondered, would you 
bother to name something 
as if it were a Web page, 
attach it, and e-mail It if all 
it contained was garbage? 

But, was it? ASCII text is 
encoded by a byte - an 8-bit 
binary number than can 
encode up to 256 characters. 
Since there are only 52 
alphabet letters (26 
lowercase and 26 
uppercase) in an ASCII set, 
most true random garbage 
mainly contains the weird 
punctuation and figures that 
are encoded by the other 
204 numbers. 

But this missive contains 
mainly letters, along with a 
few other characters. 

Letters and “regular" 



Chris 

Gulker 

Spamming is one of 
the curses of the 
Internet age, and often 
seems one of the most 
pointless, too 


punctuation are "safe” 
characters, that is to say, 
they probably don’t 
represent binary 
commands. Many Internet 
transport protocols require 
that data be transmitted as 
only “safe" characters, lest 
a router or computer 
interpret them as a 
command to, say, reset or 
shutdown. 

Could this be a kind of 
encoding? Hie plot 
thickens! 

My modern e-mail client 
hides most of the stuff teat's 
attached to an e-mail 
message like Internet 
headers and MIME specs. 
Thoughtfully, it has a “View 
source code” menu item 
that allows the user to see 
all the gory details. “View 
source" revealed the line; 
“Content-Transfer- 
Encoding; Base 64 ” 

Aha) Base 64 is another 
encoding scheme that uses 


safe characters. Now all I 
needed was a Base 64 
decoder. A quick visit to a 
freeware/shareware site 
revealed nothing, since 
most modern e-mail 
packages have built-in 
decoders (and who knows 
why mine wasn't kicking 
in?). Fortunately, Sherlock, 
my Mac’s find-it program, 
turned up a folder called 
“YA Base 64" on an old, 
long-neglected hard drive 
connected to one of the 
oldest computers gathering 
dust on gulker.com ’s LAN. 

“YA" in freeware parlance 
stands for “Yet Another". 
Freeware programmers, 
God bless their souls, are 
tike any other community - 
they have vogues and fads. 
Whenever a bunch of 
programmers tackle the 
same topic, like decoder 
utilities, they not 
infrequently name the result 
YA-something, as in YA - 
Newswatch er for a Yet 
Another Usenet news 
reader. The program's 
creation date was 1996. 
Vintage software! I 
wondered if it would run. 

It did But when I 
dropped “noticetetm” on it 
nothing happened Back to 
the drawing board 
Inspiration struck - 
noticehtm was devoid of the 
content encoding string and 
other markers in the source 
e-maiL Decoder programs 
rely on markers - words like 
“BEGIN" or “Cut Here” to 
find the bits to decode. I 
saved the e-mail to disk, and 
dropped it on the decoder - 
a new “noticehtm" file 
appeared immediately. I 
dropped it on my browser. 


A page appeared, a Java 
applet launched, question 
marks began to parade 
across the browser's bottom 
border, a new window 
appeared and the browser 
suddenly transported itself 
to a site 

(http://ww.zhaigiang.gft cn/j. 
But “.m"? This was in 
China. 1 

One of the windows 
began to display a 
mesmerising 3D graphic, 
while a “Christmas 
Benediction” scrolled. In 
another window a photo 
collage appeared, and then, 
suddenly, its surface rippled 
as if a drop of water had 
fallen in a still pool covering 
the image. Then a wave 
undulated from one comer 
to the other The effects 
were dazzling, and had 
downloaded so fast from a 
server across the Pacific, 
that I knew these were no 
mere animated GIF files. I 
clicked on the image. 

A new window appeared; 
“Wormhole Applet by Ffebio 
CiuccT, with the tine “You 
can connect to my page” and 
a button. I clicked the button. 
We were transported to: 
http://www.azifiteatro.it/java- 
htznl - Italy, this tim e. 
Another wizzy rippling 
image appeared. Eabio is a 
programmer and his Java 
applets are for sale. 

Thirty minutes of 
detective work on three 
continents, only to find rd 
spammed myself! Fhbio, 
you’re one brilliant 
spammer (the alternative is 
rm the world's dumbest 
spammee). Oi vey. 

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THE MONDAY REVIEW 

The Independent Zl December 1998 


Are you surfing comfortably? 


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F or the festive sea- 
son, I want to give 
all of my readers a 
special present: a 
universal remote 
control for your 
website. Whether you are 
channel surfing or web surfing 
a remote control can make the 
experience more convenient 
and more comfortable. 

With the telly, a remote con- 
trol is a small device with 
buttons which is used to 
change the content on the big 
screen. On the Web, the re- 
mote is a small browser win- 
dow that contains links to 
change the content in the 
main browser window. 

If you have any problems 
with this code, or you would 
like to see a working example 
of the remote control, visit: 
http://www.webbedenviron- 
ments.com/examples/49JitmL 
lb set up your remote con- 
trol, the basic idea is to use 
JavaScript to open a n ew w in - 
dow and then place an HTML 


Web Design 


< FRAMESET ROWS="50,*" 



<FRAME SRC^menu.hcmr 
NAME="menu"> 

< FRAME 
SRC="pl.htmi" 
NAME^content" > 
</FRAME5ET> 


JASON 

CRANFORD 

TEAGUE 


file in it with the links that 
make up the remote. Hie re- 
mote is opened from the main 
browser window which, in this 
example, is set up as two hor- 
izontal frames. 

The top frame unenu) wOJ 
have the link used to open up 
the remote control and the 
bottom frame (content) will 
be what the remote control tar- 
gets its links into. 


Opening the Remote Control 
Using the JavaScript open 
method, we create a function 
called remoteOpenO which is 
placed in a < SCRIPT 
LANGUAGE = "JavaScript” > 
...</SCRIPT> in the 
<HEAD> of the menu.htmi 
file. 


var remote = null: 
function remoteOpenO { 
remote = 

window.open (“remote, h tml". 
"remoteVwidth= 1 00, height 
=250"); 


window.remoce . focus() : 
} 


When activated, this function 


wQl create a new window called 
“remote” with a width of 100 
pixels and a height of 250 pix- 
els. The new window will con- 
tain the file remoteJxtinl which 
is a run-of-the-mill HTML file. 
Unlike a standard window; how- 
ever file remote window will not 
have menus, browser naviga- 
tion fie, bade and forward ar- 
rows), the current URL listing 

or anything other than the bor- 
der around the window. The 
border-called the “chrome’' - 
does include the standard 
dose-window button in the 
upper right corner; allowing 
the visitor to dose the remote 
at any time, but all of the 
100x250 area is reserved for the 
file being loaded into the re- 
mote. 

Notice also that the remo- 
teOpenO function gives the re- 
mote focus - that is, it will 
place ft on top of aqy other win- 
dows on the screen. Other- 
wise, if the remote window 
were already open, but covered 
by another window, it would 


simply reload without coming 
to the front This can be very 
Confusing to visitors to your site 
if they hit the link to reopen the 
remote and nothing appears. 
Speaking of which. .. 

Tb open the ranote, we have 
to run the remoteOpenO func- 
tion. There are several ways to 
do this, including having it open 
automatically when the main 
browser window opens. How- 
ever; it is a good idea to indude 
a link that will allow visitors to 
reopen the remote if they dose 
it or to bring the remote to the 
front if it disappears behind an- 
other window. 


dimensions you defined in the 
remoteOpenO function. If you 
want links from the remote to 
appear in the main window, 
simply target the links to the 
content frame. 


after yourself. To that end, 
place fee remoteCloseO func- 
tion after the remoteOpenO 
function in menuhtmL 


<A HREF="p1.htmi" 
TARGET = "con ten c" > Page 
1 </A> 

<A H REF =" p2.htm!" 
TARGET = "con ten c’> Page 
2</A> 

<A H RE F=" p3.html" 
TARG ET = "con ten t’ > Page 
3</A> 


function remoteCioseO { 

iF ((remote != null) 

&& 

(window.remote.document 

>= null)) 

{ remote.dose(); } 
else { return; } 

> 


<A 


HREF="javascript:remoceOp 
enQ"> Remote </A> 


The above links are in re- 
moteJatml but they target their 
links back into the content 
frame in the main window. 


This function first checks to see 
if the remote is open. If ft is, the 
function doses the window. 
Place an onUnload event han- 
dler into the <BODY> tag of 
menuhtmL 
<BODY 

on Unload ^remoteCioseO" 


targeting Links Back to 
the Main Window 

So what goes into the remote 
control? Anything that you 
could put into an HTML docu- 
ment, but you need to keep in 
mind that it has to fit into the 


Closing the Remote 

The visitor can dose the remote 
control by using the remote 
window’s built-in dose button, 
but what happens if the visitor 
leaves your ate without dosing 
the remote? Good manners 
dictate that you should dean up 


Now, when the visitor goes to 
a new website, and the 
Tm»nii ht ynl file is unloaded, the 
remote will automatically 
disappear 

But wait! The universal 


remote is good for much, 
much* more! 

Sidebar Navigation; The sim- 
plest use of the remote control 
is to replace the sidebar navi- 
gation often used in websites. 
Check out the real co d rem ote 
in Entropy8 (http://www.en- 
tropy8.com/). 

Wfeb Twin If you have a page 
of your favourite websites, you 
might consider placing them 
into a remote control. 

Control Pad: You can also 
Tpakft the remote into a control 
pad to add functionality to 
the site. 

Kairos&tipy/englisft ttu.edu/ 
kairos/3.2) uses a remote con- 
trol with two frames: the left 
frame bps the links while the 
right frame can display infor- 
mation about the journal, 
search En gine links, and links 
to other materials. 

Season’s greetings. Enjoy 
your new toy. 




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BILL PANNIFER 


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www.santa tracker.com/h cm!/ 

5a nta crack. hem I 

Santa's progress is here 
observed with military precision. 
Departure from the North Pole 
on 24 December will be video- 
monitored, the reindeers radar- 
tracked, and meteorological 
reports constancy updated. 

The site features real-time 
sleigh systems evaluation and 
even a special night-vision 
facility. Special flashing alerts 
will warn viewers as he zeros in 
to make his home deliveries. 

Jollies if less topicaL thrills at 
Claus Corn's anima ted theme 
park (www2.claus.com), where 
kids anxiously awaiting their 
stocking can check their 
persona! “naughty" or “nice" 
rating in advance. Another 


hopeful (www.santa-claus.com) 
chuckles away while claiming to 
have been online since 1672. 
Meanwhile, Lycos offers a Java 
Race Your Reindeers game 
(wwwJycos.co.uk/webguides/spec 
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Simplify the festive hols 

www.newdream.org/holiday 
Conspicuous Christmas 
consumption is under attack at 
this site: the US produces five 
million extra tons of rubbish over 
the festive period and this site 
suggests creating less waste. 

Visitors send in unusuaL 
ecologically sound gift ideas - 
“my parents sponsored a panther 
in my name at the zoo" - and 
there are proposals for gifts of 
time rather than money, as well 
as some rather strained 


alternative carols. Also on patrol 
is a Commercialism Cop to bust 
premature seasonal mania, such 
as the Maryland shop which put 
up its tree in Juty. 

Links lead to other recycled 
presents, such as the ever- 
popuiar ornaments made from 
freebie AOL CDs 
(www-neosoft com/nikki) , which 
this year indude a Nativity Scene 
and a Jingle Bell Necklace. 



carapace, right down to the 
motor and CPU. One specimen is 
being kept on ice before being 
modified, using electric cooker 
parts, and resurrected as 
Frankenfurby. “We find hfrn 
much more amusing dead than 
alive,” muse the webmasters. 


Frankenfurby is promised 

WWW. 

game.com/furby/index.html 
Christmas is a time of worldwide 
communication, and where 
Esperanto foiled, the Ehrby could 
well succeed. The official site for 
this year’s hard-to-get toy 
includes a Fhrbish Actionary - 
with sound dips Chappy = noo- 


loo; tickle = nee-tye; maybe, 
oddly enough, = may-bee) - and 
the chance to send a festive shot 
of one of the furry pests posing in 
front of the Taj Mahal. 

As no one actually believes in 
Santa anymore, this year’s dose 
of disillusionment could perhaps 
come from the Bhrby Autopsy 
Site (www.phobe.ccm/furby) , 
which gives instructions for 
unpeeling skin, ears and 


Praying by Fingers 

www.cofe.anglican.org 
Not much sign of Christmas here 
as yet The self-proclaimed 
“young and modest", though 
well-designed, official site 
indudes a brief history of the 
church and its organisation; key 
statistics; and will soon offer 
sections ran g in g from major 
social issues to planning one's 
own funeraL As well as a daily 
online service, there is also 
personal advice on “How to 


Prey”, with suggestions for using 
each finger to represent different 
prayer goals - digital worship in 
its most literal sense. But some 
of the ideas sound a bit New 
Agey: focusing on a feather is 
recommended. TJnks lead to 
individual diocesan and other 
sates: for more C of E news and 
discussion try Anglicans Online 

( Anglican nrg/n nlmp) 


Iraq’s touch of peace 

christmas.com/woridview 
Click on a map for accounts of 
celebrations worldwide, at this 
newly enlarged section of this 
otherwise elf-infested ate. 

Lots of fascinating detail - 
Icelanders, it seems, believe in 13 
Santas, all descended from the 
mythical Gryia the Ogre. And 
interesting festive grub indudes 


figgy pudding and Finnish kaffi 
bulla to raw oysters. 

Too often country links lead to 
a dead end - “We are currently 
looking for contributions for 
Myanmar (Burma) 

But there remains much 
multicultural variety, as well as 
some universal aspirations: “In 
Iraq... after the service, the 
bishop blesses one person with a 
touch. Then that person touches 
the person next to him or her. 
Finally everyone has the Touch 
of peace’ on Christmas Day.” 

But nothing, of course, about 
US cruise missiles to celebrate 
tee start of Ramadan. 


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pinch, cool site 
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THE PRINCE OF EGYPT 0J> 

Director: Brenda Chapman. Simon Weils. 

Sieve Hickner 

Voiced by: Val Kilmer. Ralph Fiennes, 
jVlichelle Pfeiffer 

DreamWorks honcho Jeffrey Katzenberg envisaged 
his cartoon Life of Moses "painted by Claude 
Monet and photographed try David Lean". The end 
result winds up as The Ten Commandments by way 


of Joseph and his Amazing 7fedtn*cobr DneamcoaL 
West End: ABC Baker Street. ABC Tottenham 
Court Read. Barbican Screen. Clapham Picture 
House, Elephant & Castle Coronet. Empire 
Leicester Square, Hammersmith Virgin. Odeon 
Camden Ibum, Odeon Kensington. Odeon 
Marble Arch, Odeon Swiss Cottage. Ritzy 
Cinema, UCI Whiteleys. Virgin Fulham Road, 
Virgin Trocadero 


General release 


ANTZ OPG) 

See The Independent Recommends, right. 

West End: ABC Tottenham Court Road, Phoenix 
Cinema, Plaza. Ritzy Cinema, Screen on 
the Green, UCI Whiteleys. Virgin Chelsea Virgin 
Trocadero 

BABES PIG IN THE CITY (g) 

In the follow-up to Babe, knockabout comedy 
is kept to a minim um in favour of a bleak 
animatronic fairytale. West End: ABC Baker 
Street, ABC Tottenham Court Road, Clapham 
Picture House , Elephant & Castle Coronet, 
Hammersmith Virgin. Odeon Camden Town. 
Odeon Kensington, Odeon Marble Arch. Odeon 
Swiss Cottage, Plaza, Rio Cinema, Ritzy 
Cinema, UCI Whiteleys, Virgin Fulham Road, 
Virgin Trocadero 

BLADE <181 

A techno soundtrack bumps and grinds behind 
this monotonous arcade-game thriller about a 
New York vampire-killer tackling a power-crazed 
□ew bloodsucker. Noise and martial-arts action 
mask Its tinny pedigree. 

QWest End: Odeon Camden Town. Odeon 
Kensington. Odeon Marble Arch. UCI Whiteleys, 
Virgin Trocadero. Warner Village West End 

THE BOYS (18) 

Out of jail after serving a sentence for GBH, 
oldest “boy" Brett Sprague (David Wfenham) 
moves back into his mum's drab suburban borne, 
terrorises his girlfriend and turns his younger 
brothers into petty henchmen. The Bogs spotlights 
the downside of life Down Under - it's potent, 
predatory stuff. 

West End : Metro, Ritzy Cinema 

DANCING AT LUGHNASA (PG> 

Less a dance, more of a trudge, this Ireland-set 
saga is given backbone by Meryl Streep's regal 
performance. West End: Curzon Mayfair, Notting 
Hifl Coronet Rio Cinema 


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DEAD MAN'S CURVE (15) 

Writer-director Dan Rosen must have had 
some terrible experiences at university. All the 
students at his nameless American college are 
trying to butcher each other, led into temptation 
by an obscure regulation that awards straight- 
A grades to the room-mates of suicides. Though 
not as deliciously nasty as the Scream films. 
Dead Man's Curve delivers a respectable 
quota of drive-in shocks. 

West End: ABC Piccadilly 

IBETH (15) 

• Kapur’s follow-up to Bandit Queen is the 
story of a female figurehead struggling to gain 
purchase in a male world. But Kapur largely 
neglects the opportunities for fim in a story of 
independence triumphing over cruelty. 

West End: ABC Tottenham Court Road, Odeon 
Haymarket, Odeon Mezzanine, Odeon Swiss 
Cottage, Virgin Fulham Road 

FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS (18) 
Thny GiBiam's adaptation tilts at Ralph Steadman 
cartaonery for its tale of a drug-fuelled 
s l- iMiistic assignment The film soon descends 
into a carnival of narcotic lunacy, with the one 
stand-out being Johnny Depp - who brings 
Hunter S Thompson into bald-headed, 
pigeon-toed life. 

West End- ABC Baker Street, Empire Leicester 
Square. Odeon Camden Tbwn. Ritzy Cinema, 
Virgin Haymarket 

ITS A WONDERFUL LIFE (U) 

See The Independent Recommends, right. 

West End Curzon Soho, Gate Notting Hill, 
Richmond FUmhouse, Ritzy Cinema 

LEFT LUGGAGE CPG) 


within a Hasidic family in 1970s Holland 
Fitful as drama, the film comes to life as a 
showcase for its high-profile performers plus 
rising star Laura Frasen 
West End ABC Swiss Centre, Curzon Minema 
Odeon Swiss Cottage, Phoenix Cinema , 
Richmond FUmhouse. Screen an Baker Street, 
Screen on the Hid 

LOCK, STOCK AND TWO SMOKING 
BARRELS (18) 

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels follows 
the lead of Tarantino, but the film's defining 
characteristic is its resilient morality. 

West End: ABC Panton Street, Odeon 
Kensington, Odeon Marble Arch, Odeon 
Mezzanine, Warner Vfflage West End 

THE MASK OF ZORRO CPG) 

This gaudy swashbuckler gallops full speed 
thro ug h 19th-century California in the company 
of Antonio Banderas’s authentically Hispanic 
do-gooder. A bite-sized history lesson on West 
Coast politics struggles amid a lot of colourful 
duels and clattering set-pieces. 

West End Barbican Screen, Clapham Picture 
House, Elephant & Castle Coronet Hammersmith 
Virgin, Odeon Camden Tbum, OdeonKensmgton, 
Odeon Leicester Square, Odeon Marble Arch, 
Odeon Swiss Cottage. Ritzy Cinema, UCI 
Whiteleys, Virgin Fulham Road 

mulan an 

In Disney's animated feature, a girl dis gu is es 
herself as a soldier to spare her ailing father from 
the certain death of combat. This set-up has got 
it all: a pro-active heroine who does not want to 
tend a man or pet woodland animals: a strong 
father/daughter relationship; honour and 

nobility; and, of course, cross-dressi n g . It s also 
one tfithe most visually innovative movies that 
D i *^3p has ever made. 

ZesT End: Odeon Camden Town, Odeon 
Mezzanine, Odeon Swiss Cottage, UCI Whiteleys, 
Virgin Chdsea Warner Village West End 


MY NAME IS JOE (15) 

See The Independent Recommends, right 
West End ABC Tottenham Court Road. Ritzy 
Cinema, Screen on Baker Street, Screen on the 
HUL Virgin Chelsea, Virgin Haymarket 

THE NEGOTIATOR «15» 

Samuel L Jackson and Kevin Spacey go head to 
head in Gray’s thrilling drama. The script has a 
predilection for honk- headed swearing that sounds 
uneasy in the mo uth s of such articulate, rhetorical 
performers. West End Odeon Camden Town. 
Odeon Marble Arch. UCI Whiteleys, Virgin Fulham 
Road. Virgin Trocadero, WamerViUage West End 

OUT OF SIGHT (15) 

George Clooney plays the law-breaking hero as 
a down-and-dirty version of Cary Grant, and turns 
in the best perform' 1 nee of his career so fen He 
seems to be a grown-up film star when most of 
Hollywood's male heart-throbs don't look old 
enough to get served in a pub. West End: Clapham 
Picture House, Empire Leicester Square. Gate 
Notting Hill. Odeon Camden Town. Odeon 
Kensington. Odeon Marble Arch. Odeon Swiss 
Cottage. Ritzy Cinema. Screen on Baker Street, 
UCI Whiteleys, Virgin Chelsea. V'trgtn Trocadero 

THE PARENT TRAP <PG* 

The Parent Trap catches Disney cannibalising its 
own back catalogue; re-beating its 1961 Hayley 
Mills heart-warmer into a spry, cross-cultural 
caper starring Lindsay Lohan as the separated- 
at-birth twin sisters (one British, one American) 
determined to get their parents (Natasha 
Richardson. Dennis Quaid) back together. 

West End- Hammersmith Virgin Odeon Camden 
Town. Odeon Kensington. Odeon Marble Arch. 
Odeon Swiss Cottage. Odeon West End. UCI 
Whiteleys. Virgin Chdsea 

A PERFECT MURDER (15) 

With Hollywood awash with dumb re-makes, the 
news that Hitchcock’s classic Dial M for Murder 
was to be rehashed did not bode welL But this is 
gold-plated trash: the sort of thing Hollywood does 
better than anyone else. West End ABC Pttnion 
Street, Warner Village West End 

THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (ID 

Sublime cinema. It's a fast-talking romantic 
comedy, of course, but there’s nothing silly or 
trivia] about it George Cukor's movie has a strange 
and melancholy heart and Katherine Hepburn's 
unsatisfied heiress sheds real tears. 

West End Curzon Soho, Renoir 

PLAYING GOD (18) 

Cracker director Andy Wilson suffers a rude 
lesson in Hollywood politics with this glossy but 
garbled thriller about a junkie doctor (David 
Duchovny) embroiled with a gang of counterfeiters 
headed by a hammy Tim Hutton. 

West End: Warner Village West End 

RONIN (15) 

See The Independent Recommends, right 
West End Odeon Kensington, Odeon West End, 
UCI Whiteleys, Virgin Fulham Road 

RUSH HOUR (15) 

Jackie Chan and Chris Dicker star in this hit-and- 
miss affair. West End : Elephant & Castle 
Coronet. Gate Notting HH1, Hammersmith Virgin. 
Odeon Camden Town, Odeon Kensington, Odeon 
Marble Arch, Odeon Swiss Cottage, Plaza, Ritzy 
Cinema, UCI Whiteleys, Virgin Chelsea \Trgin 
Trocadero, Warner Village West End 

SLUMS OF BEVERLY HILLS (18) 

See The Independent Recommends, right 
West End : ABC Piccadilly, ABC Shaftesbury 
Avenue 

TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (18) 

Once ridiculously held up as a video nasty, Tobe 
Hooper’s thrift-shop chiller is, rather, a unholy 
celebration of the blood-lust urges within white- 
trash America, ushering a bunch of generic teens 
to their doom among a family of unemployed 
slaughtermen. Explicit violence is thin on the 
ground; instead it's the alien, voodoo mood which 
dominates. West End: ABC Shaftesbury Avenue 

THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY (15) 
The latest comedy from the tasteless writer- 
director team of Peter and Bobby Fhrrelly. The 
film is basically a soft-centred romantic comedy 
of the kind that drifts out of Hollywood on a 
regular basis. The gags never amount to more 

than vul gar icing on an unexeptionally bland cate. 
Wbst End Odeon Mezzanine, Screen on the Green, 
Virgin Fulham Road, Virgin Haymarket 

VELVET GOLDMINE (18) 

Jonathan Rhys Myers plays is a Bowie-esque idol 
in glitter make-up; his friend and mentor Curt Wild 

(Ewan McGregor) is a self-destructive US 
rocker in the Lou Reed-Igty Pop mould. The 
story of how these characters are bound together 

is told in a film brimming with intelligent ideas. 
West End: Curzon Soho, Rio Cinema 

LA VIE REVEE DES ANGES 
(THE DREAM LIFE OF ANGELS) (18) 

Isa CEtodie Bouchez) is a gamine but impoverished 
drifter who meets Marie (Natacha Regin er) 
while temping at a clothes sweatshop. They 
become friends and move in together in a 
stunning first feature for Erick Zonca. 

West End: ABC Swiss Centre, Curzon Minema. 
Phoenix Cinema Screen on the Green 

THE WISDOM OF CROCODILES (15) 

Jude Law plays a contemporary vampire who 
wines and dines his victims before he goes for the 
jugular West End: ABC Ponton Street 


The independent recommends 


The five Best Films 

My Name is Joe (1 5} 

All thai one would expect from a Ken Loach film 
- humour, indignation and emotional sympathy - 
driven by Peter Mullan's scarify intense performance 
as a recovering alcoholic. 

Antz (PG) 

Computer-animated comedy voiced by a stellar cast 
stars Woody Allen as a worker ant who becomes 
an unlikely opponent of the colony's totalitarian 
regime. Good fun, and Aliens best work in a while. 

Slums of Beverly 
Hills (15) 

Tamara Jenkins' 
feature debut {.right) is 
a modest but winning 
rites-of-passage movie 
about a family coping 
with poverty in LA's 
richest suburb. Alan 
Arkin gives an acting 
masterclass as (be dad. 

Ronin ( 1 5} 

John Fra nken helm cr's 

action thriller is buttressed by a fine 
international cast (Robert De Niro. Jean Reno. 
Stellan Skarsgard), moody French locations and a 
clutch of supercharged car chases. 

It’s a Wonderful Life (U, Curzon Soho) 
Despite its reputation as a national treasure. 
Frank Capra's hymn to smalltown selflessness is 
fraught with ail kinds of contradictions and blind 
spots. James Stewart, granted a vision of bow life 
would have been had he never been born, is 
magnjficcnt in the lead role. 

Anthony Quinn 


THE FIVE BEST PLAYS THE FIVE BEST SHOWS 



Hindle Wakes 

Royal Exchange, Manchester 

Spectacularly refurbished after the 1996 bombing, 
this theatre bounces back in fine resilient form 
with the excellent production which had to be 
aborted then. To 9 Jan 

Martin Guerre 

West Yorkshire Playhouse. Leeds 
It's third time lucky for this much-rewritten 
Boublil/Schonberg musical. In Conaj] Morrison's 
starkly involving production, it finally emerges as 
a tighter, magnificent show. To 13 Feb 


The Invention 
of Love 

Theatre Royal, 
Haymarket 
Witty fantasia 
by Tom Stoppard on 
the twin passions of 
AE Housman: 
scholarship and an 
unavailable hetero- 
sexual friend. 
To 4 Apr 


Copenhagen 

Cottesloe. National Theatre 
Michael Frayn's profound and haunting meditation 
on science, morality and the mysteries of human 
motivation (abenv). To 27 Jan 

The Boy Who Fell Into a Book 

Stephen Joseph Theatre. Scarborough 
Typically winy and ingenious concept from 
Alan Ayckbourn - here wearing bis children’s 
dramatist hat. To 9 Jan 

Paul Taylor 



Louise Bourgeois Serpentine Gallery 

Veteran French-American sculptress, siQl a leading 
light at 87, shows new installations in which a giant 
molber/spider presides over images of spinning and 
weaving, restoration and decay. To 10 Jan 

Claude Lorrain British Museum 
One hundred drawings by the great French classical 
landscape painter, including his remarkably vivid 
outdoor studies of woods and streams. 
To 10 Jan 


Bridget Riley 

Abbott Hall, Kendal 
A small retrospective, 
spanning the career 
of top British abs- 
tractionist Riley - from 
the shimmering mono- 
chromes of her early 
Sixties Op Art fame, 
to colour. stripes, 
diagonals and curves. 
To 31 Jan 


Edward Burne-Jones 

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery 
Centenary exhibition gathers together many 
favourites illustrating Burne-Jones's romantic and 
medievalist netherworld. To 1? Jan 

Chris Ofili Whitworth Gallery, 
Manchester 

The 1998 Hirncr Prize winner {above) is an upbeat 
original, his surfaces dense and decorative, 
with swirls of dots. eyes. Afros and black 
icons, and incorporating 
elephant dung. To 24 Jan 



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Cinema 

WEST END 

ABC BAKER STREET 

(0870 9020418) Q Baker Street 
Babe: Pig in the Gey 1.20pm, 
6.20pm fi*ar and Loathing in Las 
Vegas 3.40pm. 8.30pm The 

Prince of Egypt 1.40pm, 4pm, 
6.20pm. 8.35pm 

ABC PANTON STREET 

(0870-902 0404) Q Piccadilly 
Ore us The Last Days of Disco 
1.10pm. 3.40pm, 6pm. 8.25pm 
Lock. Stock & Two Smoking 
Barrels 1.10pm. 3.35pm. 6pm. 
8.30pm A Perfect Murder 
1.10pm. 3.35pm, 6pm. 8.30pm 
The Wisdom of Crocodiles 
1.10pm. 3.30pm. 6pm. 8.30pm 

ABC PICCAD1L1Y 

(0171-287 4322 (from 1pm) 
■©■ Piccadilly arcus Dead Man's 
Curve 4.05pm. 8.45pm Hamam; 
The Turkish Bath 1.25pm. 
3.50pm, 6.10pm. 8.30pm Victory 
1.10pm. 6.10pm 

ABC SHAFTESBURY AVENUE 

(0870-902 0402) O' Leicester 
Square/Tottenham Court Road 
Slums of Beverly Hills 1.05pm, 
3.2 5pm. 7.05pm, 9.05pm Texas 
Chainsaw Massacre 1 ,35pm, 
3.55pm. 6.35pm, 8.30pm 

ABC SWISS CENTRE 

(0870-902 0403) Q Leicester 
Square/Piccadilly Circus Angel 
Sharks 1 .30pm, 3.25pm, 

5.20pm. 7.15pm, 9.10pm The 
Governess 1 .45pm, 4.05pm, 

6.25pm, B.45pm Left Luggage 
1 .30pm, 6.55pm Rien Ne VSi Plus 
4.45pm. 9.15pm La Vie Rewee 
des Anges 1.25pm. 3.45pm. 
6.05pm. 8.25pm 

ABC TOTTENHAM COURT 
ROAD 

(0870-902 0414) ■©• Tottenham 
Court Road Ana 1.15pm. 
6.35pm Babe: Pig in the City 
105pm. 3.40pm Elizabeth 

3.30pm, 8.55pm My Name Is Joe 
6.25pm. 9.05pm The Prince of 
Egypt 1.20pm. 3.50pm. 6.50pm. 
9.30pm 

BARBICAN SCREEN 

(0171-638 8891) «■ Barbican The 
Mask of Zorro 3pm, 6pm. 
8.40pm The Prince of Egypt 
3pm. 5.30pm, 0pm 

CHELSEA CINEMA 

(0171-351 3742) O Sloane 

Square On Connaic la Chanson 
1pm. 3.30pm. 6pm. 8.35pm 

CLAPHAM PICTURE HOUSE 

(0171-498 3323) & Clapham 
Common Babe: Pig Hi the City 
1.45pm. 4.15pm. 6.45pm The 
Mask of Zorro 12.45pm. 
3.30pm. 6.15pm. 9pm Out of 
Sight 9.30pm The Prince of 
Egypt 2.30pm. 4.45pm. 7pm, 
9.15pm 

CURZON MAYFAIR 

(0171-369 1720) «■ Green Park 
Dancing at Lughnasa 2 pm, 
4.15pm. 6.30pm, 9pm 

CURZON MINEMA 

(0171-369 1723) Q Hyde Park 
Comer Left Luggage 2.50pm. 
6.50pm La Vie Revie des Anges 
4.40pm. 8.40pm 

CURZON SOHO 

(0171-734 2255 (l2pm-6pm) 

O Leicester Squarertottenham 
Court Road The Eel 1.30pm. 
6.45pm Henry Fool 4.10pm. 9pm 
It’s a Wonderful Life 1 pm, 
6.30pm The Last Days of Disco 
2.15pm, 9.30pm The 

Philadelphia Story 1 2 noon. 
4.30pm, 7pm Velvet Goldmine 
3.30pm, 9.15pm 


HAMMERSMITH VIRGIN 

(0870-907 0718) e Ravenstourt 
Park/Hammersmith Babe: Pfg in 
the Gey 12noon. 2.20pm. 
4.20pm Enemy of the State 
6.20pm. 9pm The Mask of Zorro 
12noon, 3pm. 6pm. 9pm The 
Parent Trap 12.10pm. 3pm. 
5.50pm, 8.40pm The Prince of 
Egypt 12.15pm. 2.20pm, 

4.30pm. 6.30pm. 8.30pm Rush 
Hour 6.30pm. 9pm 

tCAONEMA 

(0171-930 3647) Q Charing 
Cross Bianca 5pm. 7pm La 
Messa E Firtita 9pm Zero de 
Conduite 6.30pm. 8.30pm 

METRO 

(0171-734 1506) e Piccadilly 
Circus/Leicester Square The Boys 
lpm. 3.30pm. 6pm. 8.30pm Fire 
2pm. 4.15pm. 6.30pm, 0.45pm 

NOTTING HILL CORONET 

(0171-727 6705) O Netting Hill 
Gate Dancing at Lughnasa 
2.30pm. 4.30pm. 6.30pm, 

8.45pm 

ODEON CAMDEN TOWN 

(08705-050007) O Camden Town 
Babe: Pfg In the City 1 1 .55am, 
1 55pm. 3.55pm The Mask of 
Zorro 11.50am. 2.40pm. 

5.40pm. 8.30pm Mulan 1 2.05pm 
The Negotiator 5.30pm. 8.25pm 
Out of Sight 5.55pm. 8.40pm 
The Parent Trap 12.15pm. 
2.55pm The Prince of Egypt 
2.25pm. 4.40pm. 

9.10pm Rush Hour 
4.30pm. 6.40pm, 


12noon. 

6.55pm, 

2.15pm. 

9.05pm 


ODEON HAYMARKET 

(08705-050007) «■ Piccadilly 

Circus Elizabeth 2.15pm. 5pm, 
7.45pm 

ODEON KENSINGTON 

(08705-050007) e High Street 
Kensington Babe: Pig in the Gty 

I. 30pm, 3.55pm The Mask of 
Zorro 2.25pm. 5.40pm. 8.55pm 
Out of Sight 12.20pm. 3.20pm 
The Parent Trap 12noon. 3pm, 
6.05pm. 9.10pm The Prince of 
Egypt 12noon. 2.25pm, 4.50pm. 
7.15pm. 9.40pm Ronin 6.20pm. 
9.15pm Rush Hour 1.55pm. 
4.30pm, 7.05pm. 9.40pm 

ODEON LEICESTER SQUARE 

(08705-050007) O Leicester 
Square The Mask of Zorro 

II. 40pm. 2.30pm. 5.25pm. 

8.20pm 

ODEON MARBLE ARCH 

(08705-050007) O Marble Arch 
Babe: Pig in the Gty ?2.15pm. 
3.05pm The Mask of Zorro 
11.50pm, 2.50pm, 5.55pm. 9pm 
The Negotiator 8.55pm Out of 
Sight 6pm The Parent Trap 
12.15pm, 3.05pm. 6pm The 

Prince of Egypt 11.45am. 
2.05pm. 4.25pm. 6-45pm. 

9.10pm Rush Hour 11.50am. 
2.15pm, 4.40pm, 7.05pm. 

9.30pm 


AND 


CASTLE 


ELEPHANT 
CORONET 

(0171-703 4968) ■©■ Elephant & 
Castle Babe: Pig In the City 
1 .50pm. 3.45pm The Mask of 
Zorro 2pm. 5.15pm. 8.10pm The 
Prince of Egypt 1.30pm. 4pm. 
6.20pm. 8.35pm Rush Hour 

6.30pm. 8.45pm 

EMPIRE LEICESTER SQUARE 

(0990-888990) Q Leicester 
Square Fear and Loathing Hi Las 
Vegas 12.40pm. 3.30pm. 6.10pm. 
9pm Qut of Sight 12.10pm, 
2.55pm. 5.50pm, 8.35pm The 
Prince of Egypt 10.45am. 1pm. 
3.30pm. 6pm. 8.30pm 

GATE NOTTING HILL 

(0171-727 4043) -O Notting Hill 
Gate it's a Wonderful Life 
4.10pm (+ Short: Whoosh) Out 
of Sight 1.40pm. 6.40pm Rush 
Hour 9.05pm 


ODEON MEZZANINE 

(08705-050007) -©■ Leicester 

Square Elizabeth 12.35pm, 
3.05pm, 5.35pm. 8.20pm Lock, 
Stock & Two Smoking Barrels 
1.25pm, 3.55pm, 6.20pm, 

8.45pm Les Miserables 2.35pm, 
5.30pm. 8.15pm Mulan 2.10pm. 
4.20pm Snake Eyes 6.25pm, 
8.35pm There's Something 
About Mary 12.45pm. 3- 15pm. 
S.45pm, 8.20pm 

ODEON SWISS COTTAGE 

(08705-050007) O Swiss 
Cottage Babe: Pig in the City 
1.25pm, 3.45pm Elizabeth 

8.30pm Left Luggage 6.25pm. 
8.45pm The Mask of Zorro 
1.40pm, 4.55pm. 8pm Mulan 
12.45pm Out of Sight 3pm. 
5.25pm. 8.20pm The Parent Trap 
12.15pm. 3.05pm, 5.45pm The 
Prince of Egypt 1pm. 3.25pm. 
5.55pm, 8.25pm Rush Hour 

I. 30pm, 4pm, 6.30pm. 8.50pm 

ODEON WEST END 

(08705-050007) Q Leicester 
Square The Parent Trap 
12.15pm. 3pm. 5.40pm. 8.30pm 
Ronin 12,35pm, 3.10pm, 

5.45pm, 8.25pm 

PEPSI IMAX CINEMA 

(0171-494 4153) O Piccadilly 
Circus Everest 12.35pm, 2.40pm, 
4.45pm. 7pm, 9.05pm T-Rec 
Back to the Cretaceous (3-D) 

II. 30am, 1.35pm, 3.40pm. 

5.45pm. 8pm. 10.05pm 

PHOENIX CINEMA 

(0181-444 6789) «■ East Finchley 
Antz 1 2pm Left Luggage 1 .50pm 
La Vie Revee des Anges 
4.05pm. 6.30pm 


PLAZA 

(0990-888990) Q Piccadilly Grcus 
Antz 1.15pm. 3.30pm Babe: Pig 
in the Cley 12.45pm. 3.10pm. 
5.30pm Rush Hour 1 ,30pm, 4pm. 
6.30pm. 9pm Saving Private 
Ryan 7.50pm The Truman Show 
6pm. B.30pm Twilight 1pm. 
3.45pm. 6.15pm. 8.40pm 

RENOIR 

(0171-837 8402) e- Russell 

Square On Connaic (a Chanson 
1 pm. 3.30pm. 6pm. 8.35pm The 
Philadelphia Story 1.30pm. 
3.55pm. 6.20pm, 8.45pm 

RIO CINEMA 

(0171-254 6677) BR: Dalston 
Kingsiand Babe: Pig in the City 
2pm. 4.15pm. 6.30pm Dancing 
at Lughnasa 8.45pm 

RITZY CINEMA 

(0171-733 2229) BR/O Brixton 
Antz 12.05pm, 2.05pm Babe: 
Pig bi the City 12.10pm. 
2 25pm. 4.25pm The Boys 7pm 
East Side Story 2.45pm It’s a 
Wonderful Life 4.15pm (+ Short: 
Whoosh) The Mask or Zorro 
12.45pm. 3.30pm. 6.15pm. 

B.55pm My Name is Joe 8.50pm 
(+ Short: The Man Who Held His 
Breath) Out of Sight 6.35pm. 
9.15pm (+ Shore: Vacuum) The 
Prince of Egypt 1 2noon. 
2.15pm. 4.30pm. 6.45pm. 9pm 
Rush Hour 4pm. 6.50pm. 
9.20pm 

SCREEN ON BAKER STREET 

(0171-935 2772) e Baker Street 
Left Luggage 2.30pm. 4.40pm. 
6.50pm, 9pm My Name Is Joe 
2.20pm. 6.40pm Out oF Sight 
4.20pm, 8.40pm 

SCREEN ON THE GREEN 

(0171-226 3520) ■©■ Highbury fit 
Islington Antz 3.30pm La Vie 
Revee des Anges 6.15pm. 
8.40pm 

SCREEN ON THE HILL 

(0171-435 3366) O Befsize Park 
Left Luggage 2.30pm. 4.30pm, 
6.40pm My Name is Joe 8.50pm 

IK3 WHITELEYS 

(0990-888990) Q Queensway 
Babe: Pig in the Gty 3.50pm. 
4.50pm. 7pm Blade 6.20pm. 
9.10pm The Mask of Zorro 
2.50pm. 5.40pm. 8.50pm The 
Negotiator 9.10pm Out of Sight 
3.40pm. 6.30pm, 9.20pm The 
Parent Trap 3pm. 5.50pm. 
8.40pm The Prince oF Egypt 
3.30pm. 6pm, 8.30pm Rush 
Hour 4.40pm. 7pm. 9.30pm 

VIRGIN CHELSEA 

(0870-907 0710) ■& Sloane 

Square/South Kensington Antz 
1 2.30pm. 2.30pm. 4.1 5pm, 

6.30pm Mulan 12.45pm My 
Name is Joe 8.45pm Out of 
Sight 2.45pm. 5.30pm, 9pm The 
Parent Trap 12.15pm. 3pm. 
5.45pm. 8.30pm Rush Hour 

2pm. 5pm. 7.15pm. 9.30pm 

VIRGIN FULHAM ROAD 

(0870-907 0711) ■©■ South 

Kensington Babe: Pig in the City 
1pm, 3pm. 5pm Elizabeth 2pm. 
5.30pm, 8.20pm The Mask of 
Zorro 12.20pm. 3.10pm. 

6.1 0pm, 9.10pm The Negotiator 
12.40pm. 3.35pm, 6.25pm. 

9.20pm The Prince of Egypt 
12.10pm. 2.15pm. 4.25pm. 

6.40pm. 8.50pm Ronin 7pm. 
9.30pm There’s Something 
About Mary 2.15pm, 5.50pm. 
9pm 

VIRGIN HAYMARKET 

(0870-907 0712) e Piccadilly 
Circus Fear and Loathing in Las 
Vegas 12.45pm. 3.20pm. 6pm, 
8.35pm My Name is Joe 
12.55pm. 3.30pm. 6.10pm. 

8.45pm There’s Something 
About Mary 12.30pm, 3.10pm. 
5.50pm. 8.25pm 

VIRGIN TROCADERO 

(0870-907 0716) o Piccadilly 
Orcus Antz 12.10pm. 2.10pm. 
4.05pm, 6.10pm. 8.30pm Babe: 
Pig in the Gty 1 2.20pm. 
2.20pm, 4.20pm Blade 6.25pm. 
9pm The Negotiator 2pm. 
5.30pm. 8.30pm Out of Sight 
12 noon, 2.50pm, 5.40pm. 

8.30pm The Prince of Egypt 
12.50pm. 3.20pm. 5.50pm. 

8. 1 0pm Rush Hour 12.1 Opm. 
2.25pm, 4,40pm. 7pm. 9.20pm 
The Thiman Show 1 pm. 3.30pm. 
6 . 10 pm, 9pm 

WARNER VILLAGE WEST END 

(0171-437 4343) Q Leicester 
Square Blade 1 .20pm. 4pm. 
6.40pm. 9.20pm The Exorcist 

(25th Anniversary Rerelease) 
1.30pm. 3.20pm, 6pm. 8.40pm 
Lethal Weapon 4 1 2noon, 

2.50pm, 5.40pm. 8.30pm 


Lock. Stock & Two Smoking 
Barrels 1 .20pm. 3- 40pm. 6.20pm. 
8.50pm Mulan 12.10pm. 2.30pm. 
4.40pm The Negotiator 12.10pm, 
3.1 0pm. 6. 1 0pm. 9.20pm A 
Perfect Murder 1.10pm. 3.50pm. 
6.30pm. 9pm Playing God 
7.10pm. 9.30pm Rush Hour 

12.50pm. 1.50pm. 3.20pm. 

4.20pm. 5.50pm. 7pm. 8.20pm. 
9.30pm. 

Cinema 

London locals 

ACTON 

PARK ROYAL WARNER VILLAGE 
(01 81 -896 0066) O Fbrk Royal Antz 
12.1 Opm. 2.1 0pm. 4.20pm. 
6.30pm. 8.30pm Babe: Pfg in the 
City 10am. 12.10pm. 2.20pm. 
4.30pm. 6.50pm Blade 7pm. 
9.55pm The Mask of Zorro 
1 2noon. 2.55pm. 5.50pm. 8.40pm 
Mulan 10.35am. 2.45pm The Ne- 
gotiator 6.10pm. 9. 10pm Out of 
Sight 9.45pm The Parent Trap 1 pm. 
3.45pm. 6.40pm, 9.35pm The 
Prince of Egypt 1 ,30pm. 3.55pm. 
6.20pm, 8.55pm Rush Hour 
12.50pm, 2.30pm. 3.05pm. 

4.50pm. 5.20pm. 7.10pm. 7.40pm. 
10.05pm. 9.25pm Small Soldiers 
12.25pm. 4 40pm 

BARNET 

ODEON (08705 050007) ■©■ High 
Barnet Antz 1 2 noon Babe: Pig In 
The City 12.20pm. 2.15pm. 
4. 1 5pm. 6.05pm The Mask of Zor- 
ro 12.45pm. 3.45pm. 8pm The Ne- 
gotiator 8.15pm Out of Sight 
8.25pm The fferent Tfcap 1 2.40pm. 
3.20pm The Prince of Egypt 
12.40pm, 3.20pm. 6.20pm. 8.50pm 
Rush Hour 1 ,55pm, 4.1 5pm, 
6.35pm. 8.55pm 

BECKENHAM 

ABC (0870 90204 1 2) BR: Becken- 
ham Junction Antz 4.55pm, 6.50pm 
Babe: Pig In the City 12.15pm. 
2.35pm The Parent Trap 12.25pm. 
3.10pm. 5.55pm. 8.30pm The 
Prince of Egypt 1 2.30pm. 3pm. 
6.40pm. 9pm Rush Hour 8.50pm 

BEXLEYHEATH 

ONEWORLD (0181-303 1550) BR: 
Bedeyheath Antz 12.30pm. 2.30pm, 
4.30pm. 6.30pm Babe: Pig in the 
City 11am. 1.05pm. 3.10pm, 
5.15pm Blade 7.10pm. 9.40pm 
Kuch Kuril Hoca Hai 2pm, 5.20pm, 
8.45pm The Mask of Zorro lpm. 
3.45pm. 6.30pm. 9.20pm Mulan 
12noon Out oF Sight 7.15pm. 
9.45pm The Parent Trap 1 1.10am, 

1 .45pm. 4.25pm. 7pm, 9.35pm The 
Prince of Egypt 11am, 12.10pm, 
1.10pm, 2.20pm, 3.20pm, 4.30pm. 
5.30pm, 6.50pm, 9pm Rush Hour 
1 pm. 3.30pm, 6pm. 7.40pm. 
8.30pm. 9.45pm Small Soldiers 
12noort. 2.30pm. 4.50pm There's 
Something About Mary 8.50pm 

BROMLEY 

ODEON (08705 050007) BR: 
Bromley North Babe: Pig in die Gty 
1.15pm The Mask of Zorro 
1.45pm. 5.05pm, 8.10pm Out of 
Sight 0.35pm The Parent Trap 
1 2.10pm, 3pm. 5.45pm The Prince 
of Egypt 1 2.45pm, 3. 1 5pm, 
6.05pm. 8.45pm Rush Hour 
3.50pm. 6.20pm. 8.50pm 

CATFORD 

ABC (0181-698 3306) BR: Catford 
Babe: Pig in The Gty 1.30pm. 
3.50pm. 6pm The Prince of Egypt 

I . 1 5pm. 3.45pm. 6. 1 5pm. 8.45pm 
Rush Hour 8.40pm 

CROYDON 

CLOCKTOWER (0181-253 1030) 
BR: Croydon West/East Elizabeth 
6.10pm The Last Days of Disco 
3.45pm Love is The Devil 8.45pm 
Mulan 1 1am 

SAFARI (01 81-688 3422) BR: West 
Croydon. Babe: Pig in the City 
1 2.20pm. 2.50pm The Mask of Zor- 
ro 12.05pm. 2.45pm. 5.40pm, 
8.20pm The Prince of Egypt 
12noon, 2.30pm, 5.50pm. 8.10pm 
Rush Hour 8.05pm 

WARNER VILLAGE (0181-680 
8090) BR: East Croydon Antz 1 pm. 
3.10pm. 5.10pm. 7.10pm. 9.10pm 
Babe: Pig In the Gty 1.25pm. 
3.50pm. 6.05pm Blade 6.50pm. 
9.50pm The Mask of Zorro 

I I , 50am. 2.50pm. 5.50pm. 8.50pm 
Mulan 1 0.1 0am, 2.30pm The Ne- 
gotiator 6pm. 9pm Out of Sight 
8.30pm The Parent Trap 12.30pm, 
3.30pm. 6.25pm. 9.20pm The 
Prince of Egypt 10.40am, 1.10pm, 
3.40pm. 6.10pm. 8.40pm Rush 
Hour 1.40pm. 4.10pm, 6.40pm, 
9.30pm Small Soldiers 12.10pm. 
4.30pm 


DAGENHAM 

WARNER VILLAGE (0181-592 
2020) O Dagenham Heathway Antz 
11.30am. 1.30pm. 3.40pm. 

5.40pm. 8pm Babe: Pig In the City 
10.30am. 11am. 12.45pm. 1.45pm. 
4pm. 6. 1 5pm Blade 8.40pm The 
Mask of Zorro 12noon, 3pm. 
5.50pm. 9. 1 Opm Mulan 1 1 ,20am, 
4pm The Negotiator 9-30pm Out 
of Sight 8.30pm The Parent Trap 
10.45am. 1.25pm. 4.10pm. 

6.55pm, 9.40pm The Prince of 
Egypt 11am, 1.20pm. 3.45pm. 
6.10pm, 8.40pm Rush Hour 

I. 15pm. 3pm. 3.30pm. 5.15pm. 
6.30pm, 7.30pm. 9pm, 9.50pm 
Small Soldiers 1.40pm. 6.15pm 

EALING 

VIRGIN UXBRIDGE ROAD (0870- 
9070719) BR/Q Ealing Broadway 
Babe: Pig in the City 1 2noon The 
Mask of Zorro 2. 1 Opm. 5.30pm. 
8.30pm The Parent Trap 12.30pm. 
3.20pm The Prince of Egypt 1 pm. 
3.20pm. 5.50pm. 8.05pm Rush 
Hour 6pm. 8.40pm 

EDGWARE 

BELLE-VUE (0181-381 2556) 
■Q Edgware Antz 1 2.30pm. 2 30pm 
Babe: Pig in The Gty 12.15pm. 
2.30pm Jhoole Bole Kauwa Kaate 
phone for times Kuril Kudi Hoca Hai 
phone for times Mehndi phone for 
times Nasseb phone for times The 
Parent Trap 1 .45pm, 5pm. 8pm Wa- 
jood phone for times 

EDMONTON 

LEE VALLEY UCI 12 (0990- 
888990) •©■ Tottenham Hale Antz 

II. 50am. 2.10pm, 3pm. 6.35pm 

Babe: Pig m the Gty 10.45am. 
12.10pm. 1.15pm. 2.30pm, 

3.45pm. 5 10pm. 6.25pm. 7.50pm 
Blade 3.10pm. 6pm. 9.05pm Doll 
Sajake Rakhna 8.55pm Kuch Kuril 
Hota Hai 5.10pm. 8.40pm The 
Mask Of Zorro 1 2.30pm. 3.35pm, 
6.50pm. 10pm Mulan 10.35am, 
12.50pm The Negotiator 10.10pm 
Out of Sight 4pm. 7pm. 10.20pm 
The Parent Trap 1 2noon. 2.50pm, 
5.50pm, 8pm The Prince of Egypt 
11.10am. 1.40pm. 4.10pm. 

6.35pm, 9 15pm Ronin 9.25pm 
Rush Hour 11.40am. 12.40pm, 
2.15pm. 3.20pm. 4.45pm, 6.10pm. 
7.15pm. 8.55pm. 9.50pm Saving 
Private Ryan 9.15pm Small Sol- 
diers 11am. 1.30pm 

FE1THAM 

ONEWORLD THE MOVIES (0181- 
867 0555) BR: Feltham Antz 
11.25am. 1.25pm. 3.25pm. 

5.25pm, 7.25pm Babe; Pig In the 
City 12noon. 2.20pm. 4.40pm 
Blade 7pm. 9.30pm Doli Sajake 
Rakhna 3.20pm. 9.50pm Jhoole 
Bole Kauwa Kaate 1 1 .05am. 
2.35pm, 6.05pm. 9.35pm Kuch 
Kuch Hota Hai 1 T . 1 0am. 2.40pm. 
6.10pm, 9.40pm Kudrat 3pm. 
6.30pm, 1 0pm Lock, Stock & Two 
Smoking Barrels 9.45pm The Mask 
of Zorro 1 2noon. 3pm, 6pm. 9pm 
Mulan 11am, 1pm Nasseb 
1 1 .30am. 6.20pm The Negotiator 
6.15pm Out of Sight 4.30pm. 
7.05pm, 9.40pm The Parent Trap 
1.15pm. 4pm. 6.55pm. 9.35pm 
The Prince of Egypt 1 lam, 12 noon. 

I. 30pm, 2.30pm. 4pm. 5pm. 
6.30pm. 9.10pm Rush Hour 

II. 40am, 2pm. 4.20pm. 6.40pm. 
7.30pm. 9.05pm Small Soldiers 
1 1 .30am. 2pm The Soldier (Aslan 
Rim) 12noon. 3pm, 9pm Wajood 
11.1 5am. 2 .45pm. 6. 1 5pm, 9.45pm 

NORTH FINCHLEY 
WARNER VILLAGE (0181-446 
9344) East Fmchley/Flnchley 
Central Antz 1 1 .30am, 2pm. 
4. 1 5pm. 7.30pm, I Opm Babe: Pig 
In the City 11.50am, 2.10pm. 
4.30pm. 7pm Blade 9.45pm The 
Mask of Zorro 1 1 ,10am. 2.20pm. 
5.20pm. 8.30pm Mulan 10.30am. 

1 2.40pm The Negotiator 5.40pm, 
9.20pm Out OF Sight 6.50pm, 
9.40pm The Parent Trap 1 1 .40am. 
2.30pm. 5.30pm, 8.40pm The 
Prince of Egypt 10.40am. 1.10pm, 
3.40pm, 6.30pm. 9pm Rush Hour 

I. 40pm, 4pm. 6.10pm. 8.50pm 
Small Soldiers 2.50pm 

FINCHLEY ROAD 

WARNER VILLAGE ROAD (0171- 

604 3110) -O Finchley Road Antz 

II. 20am. 1.30pm, 3.40pm, 
5.50pm, 8pm Babe: Pig in the Gty 
12.10pm, 2.30pm. 5.10pm. 7.30pm 
Lock. Stock & Two Smoking Bar- 
rels iopm The Mask of Zorro 
1 2.20pm, 320pm. 6.20pm. 920pm 
Mulan 1 1.30am. 1.40pm The Ne- 
gotiator 3.50pm. 6.50pm, 9.50pm 
Out of Sight 3.55pm. 6.40pm. 
9.40pm The Parent Trap 12noon, 
3pm. 6pm, 9pm The Prince of 
Egypt 11am. 1.15pm. 3.30pm, 
6.10pm, 8.45pm Ronm 10.05pm 
Rush Hour 12.30pm. 2.50pm 
5.30pm. 7.50pm. 10.10pm Small 
Soldiers 11.05am, 1.20pm 





14/LISTINGS 


THE MONDAY REVIEW 

■n.- Trtfjpnendent 21 December 1998 



GOLOER5 GREEN 

ABC (0181-455 1 724) © Golders 
Green The Prince of Egypt 1 ,45pm. 
4,05pm. 6.20pm. 8.35pm 


GREENWICH 

CINEMA (0181-293 0101) BR: 
Greenwrch Antz 1 . 1 0pm Elizabeth 
2 A 5pmm The Mask of Zcnro 3pm, 
5.50pm. 8.40pm Mulan 12.55pm 
.The Prince Of Egypt 1.45pm. 
4pm, 6.15pm. 8.30pm Rush Hour 
■ 5pm, 7.15pm. 9.30pm 


STREATHAM 

ABC (0870-9020415) BR: 
StreatHam Hill Antz 4.20pm. 
8.35pm Babe: pig In the City 
2.10pm. 6.20pm Out of Sight 
5.30pm, 8.20pm The Prim* of 
Egypt 1 .4Spm. 4.05pm. 6.25pm, 
8.45pm Small Soldiers 2.25pm 


Theatre 

WEST. END 


HAMPSTEAD 

ABC (0870-9020413) © Betsize 
Park Babe; Pig in the City 1 ,30pm. 
3.40pm. 6pm Out of Sight 8. 1 0pm 
The Parent Trap 2.20pm, 5.25pm, 
'8.10pm The Prince oF Egypt 
1.15 pm. 3.30pm, 6.15pm, 8.35pm 


ODEON (08705 050007) BR: 
StreatHam Hill/© Brixton/Ciapham 
Common Babe: Pig In the Qty 
130pm, 3.50pm. 6.10pm the Mask 
of Zorro 12.1 0pm. 3pm. 5.45pm. 


Ticker availability details are for to- 
day; times and prices for the week: 
running dmes include intervals. • 
—5eats at all prices 9 — Seats at 
some prices O — Returns only 
Matinees — [1]: Sun, (3]; Tue. [41: 
Wed. [SJ: Thur. [6J: Fri. |7J: Sat 


w COTTESLOE: Guiding Scar 
Jonathan Harvey's new play givesa 
tender account of the He of Hills- 
borough disaster survivor. In rep 
tonight 7.30pm. 1 50 mins. Olivier 
& Lyttelton; EB-£27 . Cottesloe; 
£12-£18. Day seats from 10am. 
South Bank. SE1 (0171-452 3000), 
BR/© Waterloo. 


FIRST CALL. LAST CALL 


! ,4 ! - 1 . _A ■ " 

\ . 


v alarms and excursions 


8.30pm The Negotiator 8.10pm 
The P&rent 1tap 12.10pm, 2.50pm, 
5.30pm The Prince of Egypt 
12.1 5pm. 2.25pm, 4.35pm. 

6.45pm. 8.55pm Rush Hour 
1 ,30pm. 3.50pm. 6.10pm. 8.40pm 


HARROW 

SAFARI (0181-426 0303) © Har- 

row-on-the-HiU/Harrow fi Weaid- 
5torte Doll Sajahe RakUna 8.45pm 
Fire 1.30pm. 5pm. 7pm Kudrat 
-1.30pm, 5pm The Soldier (Aslan 
Film) 8.45pm 


WARNER VILLAGE (0181-427 
.9009) © Harrow on the Hill Antz 
11.40am. 1.40pm. 3.40pm. 

5.40pm, 7.40pm. 9.40pm Babe: Pig 
.hi the City 1 0.40am. 11.10am. 
,1.10pm, 1.40pm. 4.10pm. 6.40pm 
Blade 6.45pm. 9. 1 5pm The Mask 
of Zorro 11.20am. 2.20pm. 
5.25pm. 8.30pm Mulan 10.45am. 
12.45pm. 2.45pm. 4.45pm The 
Negotiator 9.10pm Out of Sight 
6.05pm. 8.45pm The Parent Trap 
10.15am, l.05pm. 3.55pm. 

6.45pm, 9.30pm The Prince of 
Egypt 9.35am. 12.05pm. 2.30pm. 
4.55pm. 7.25pm. 9.50pm Rush 
Hour 1 lam. 1.30pm. 3.30pm. 4pm, 
6pm, 6.30pm, 9pm. 10pm Small 
Soldiers 10.05am. 12.55pm. 
2.45pm. 4.45pm 


STRATFORD 

NEW STRATFORD PICTURE 
HOUSE (555 3366) BR/© Stratford 

East Babe: Pig la the Gey 1 2. 1 5pm. 
2.15pm. 4.15pm The Mask OF 
Zorro 12.10pm. 3pm. 5.50pm. 
8.35pm The Parent Tfap 1.10pm. 
3.45pm The Prince of Egypt 
12noon, 2.05pm. 4.15pm. 6.45pm. 
8.55pm Rush Hour 6.35pm. 9pm 
Slums oF Beverly Hills 7pm. 
9.15pm 


a dinner party which is interrupted 
Scity Kin^l 

Gielgud Shaftesbury Avenue. W1 
(0171-494 5065) ©Rcc Ore. Mon- 
Sat 7.45pm. [5J(7] 3pm, £1930- 

£27.50. 130 mins. 


ROVAL SHAKESPEARE COMRANY 
w THE BARBICAN: The Tempest 
Adrian Noble directs Shakespeare’s 
romance drama. In rep tonight 
7.15pm. 165 mins. 


• AMADEUS David Sucfaet stars 
as Salieri In Peter Shaffer's 
acclaimed drama. Old Vic The Cut. 
SE1 (OT 71-928 761 &4x 420 0000) 
BR/© Waterloo. Mon-Sat 7.30pm, 
[4J 2.30pm, |7) 3pm. £7.50-£30. 
180 mins. 


w THE PIT: The Two Gentlemen 
Of Verona Shakespeare's w itty COm- 
edytsSrectedbyEdwardHalLln rep 
tonight 7pm. ends 28 Jan. Barbican 
Theatre: £5-£26. The Pit: 
Ell -£18.50. Barbican Centre, EC2 
(0171-638 8891). BR/© Barbl- 
can/Moorgate. 


First Cali 

EVE ENSLER’S The Va gina Monologues was a huge hit 
on Broadway last yean Glenn Close, Winona Ryder 
(right), Whoopi Goldberg and Susan Sarandon were 
bagged for the US gala performance, though it's 
unconfirmed who will play London's gala show (14 Feb) . 
Drawn from the responses of 200 women to the question 
“If it could talk, what would it say?” this is, according 
to The Village Voice, “the most outrageous and impor- 
tant feminist event since the bra burnings”. 

King ’s Head Theatre, 115 Upper St, London Nl 
<0171-226 1916) opens 26 Jon, £12 


O SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER Hit 
1970s musical featuring legendary 


HOLLOWAY 

ODEON (08705 050007) © Hol- 
loway Road/Archway Antz 
12.20pm, 2.15pm. 4.15pm, 6.45pm 
Babe: Pig in the Oty 1 pm. 3.05pm 
Blade 8.45pm The Mask of Zorro 
12.30pm, 3.45pm. 8.15pm Mulan 
1 .20pm The Negotiator 5.20pm, 
8.20pm Out or Sight 3pm, 5.45pm, 
8.25pm The Parent Trap 12.10pm. 
3pm. 5.50pm. 8.35pm The Prince 
of Egypt 12.10pm. 2.20pm. 
4.35pm. 6.50pm, 9pm Rush Hour 
!2.05pm, 2.20pm. 3.50pm. 

4.35pm. 6.15pm, 6.50pm, 8.30 pm. 
9.05pm Small Soldiers 12. 35pm 


SURREY QUAYS 
ua (0990 888990) © Surrey 
Quays Antz 11.15am. 1.30pm. 
3.45pm, 6.10pm Babe: Pig In the 
City 11am. 11.15am. 1.10pm. 
1.30pm. 3.45pm. 4pm. 6.40pm 
Blade 9.20pm Lock, Stock & TWo 
Smoking Barrels 9.1 Opm The Mask 
of Zorro 12.30pm. 3.30pm, 
6.30pm, 9.30pm Mulan 11am, 
1.30pm The Negotiator 8.40pm 
Out of Sight 6.50pm. 9.50pm The 
parent Trap 12.15pm, 3.15pm. 
6.15pm The Prince of Egypt 
10.45am. 1.15pm. 3.45pm. 6pm. 
8.30pm. 10.40pm Ronln 7pm. 
9.40pm Rush Hour 11.45am. 
2.15pm. 4pm, 4.45pm, 6.20pm. 
7.15pm. 9pm. 9.40pm Small Sol- 
diers 1 1 .30am. 2pm, 4.30pm | 


w ANNIE Rags to riches stoiy of 
the optimistic orphan. Victoria 
Palace Victoria Street. SW1 (0171- 
834 1317) BR/© Victoria. Tue-Sat 
7.30pm, [4][7] 2.30pm. jl] 4pm, 
■£7.50-£32.50. 165mlns. 


Adam Garcia. London Palladium 
Argyll Street. Wl (01 71-494 5020) 
O Oxford Grc. Mon-Sat 7.30pm, 
141(7) 2.30pm, no pert Dec 25, £10- 
£32.50. 135 mins. 


v BEAUTY AND THE BEAST 

Lavish family mu steal based on Dis- 
nty’s cartoon version of the favourite 
fairy tale. Dominion Tottenham 
Court Road. Wl (0171-656 1888) 
© Tote Ct Rd. Today 2.30pm fi 
7.30pm, E18.50-E35. 150 mins. 


• STARLIGHT EXPRESS Andrew 
Lloyd Webber'S hi-tech ruUennusi- 
caL Apollo Victoria Wilton Road. 
SW1 (01 71-416 6070) BR/© Vic- 
toria. Mon-Sat 7.45pm. (3](7) 3pm. 
£12.50-£30. 150 mins. 


Last Call 

AMERICAN SKATE-PUNK band The Offspring have the 
nod of approval from the Californian skateboarding 
scene, and it seems tbeir appeal extends to colder 
dimes, too: the London date of their UK tour CBrixton 
Academy, 15 Jan) is already sold out Fast becoming MTV 
favourites, it’s their high-octane, spiky punk anthems that 
keep fans moshing. 

Barrowhmds, Glasgow <0141-339 8383) 10 Jan; Rack City, 
Nottingham (0115-912 9122) 12 Jan; Manchester Apollo 
(0161-242 2560) 13 Jan; Town & Country Chub, Leeds 
( 0113-2800100 ) 14 Jon 



’A. .4 


• BLOOD BROTHERS Willy Bus- 

selTs long-running Liverpool musi- 
cal melodrama Phoenix Charing 
Cross Road. WQ (0171-369 1733) 
e Leic Sq/Tatt Ct Rd. Mon-Sat 
7.45pm. [5] 3pm. [71 4pm. £1 1 .50- 
£32.50. 165 mins. 


w THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE Be- 
linda Lang stars in Alan Ayckbourn's 
comedy. Duchess Catherine Street. 
WC2 (0171-494 5075/cc 0171- 
344 4444) © Coven t Garden. Mon- 
Sac 7.45pm. [5J[7J 3pm. ends 30 
Jan, £15-£27.50. 140 mins. 


ILFORD 

ODEON (08705 050007} © Gants 
Hill Babe: Pig In the City 1.10pm. 
3.35pm, 6pm The Mask of Zorro 
1.50pm, 5pm. 8.10pm The Nego- 
tiator 8pm Out of Sight 8.15pm 
The Parent Trap 1 1.55am. 2.30pm. 


SUTTON 

ua 6 (0990-888990) BR: Sut- 
ton/© Morden Antz 11.30am. 

I , 30pm. 4pm Babe: Kg in the Clcy 

II. 15am. 1.45pm. 4.30pm. 7pm 
Blade 9.45pm The Mask of Zorro 
12noon. 3pm. 6pm. 9pm The Ne- 
gotiator 6.30pm Out of Sight 
9.30pm The Parent Trap 1 1 .45am, 
2.45pm. 5.45pm The Prince of 
Egypt ! 0.45am, 1.15pm, 3.45pm, 
6.125pm. 8.45pm Rush Hour 2pm. 
4.15pm, 6.45pm, 9.15pm Saving 
Private Ryan 8.30pm Small Sol- 
diers llam 


• BOOGIE NIGHTS Shane Richie 
stars in a brand new 1970s musical. 
Savoy Strand. WC2 (0171-836 
8888/cc 0171 -836 0479) © Char- 
ing X/Em bank mem. Mon-Thu 8pm. 
Fri-Sat 8.30pm, \<S\ 5.30pm. )7) 
5pm, ends 9 Jan. £1 1 -£28.50. 150 
mins. 


w THE WBR Conor McPherson's 
drama is set in Ireland and examines 
ideas of ghosts and angels. Royal 
Court Downstairs (at the Duke Of 
York’s) Sc Martin’s Lane. WC2 
(0171-565 5000) © Lek Sq/Char- 
ing X. Mon-Sat 7.30pm. [4](7) 
3.30pm. £5-£25- 90 mins. 


CHELTENHAM 

EVERYMAN THEATRE Aladdin 
Princesses, pagodas and antics in 
Peking. Mon-Wed 7.15pm. macs 
Mon -Wed 2.15pm. Thur noon 6 
4pm. ends 16 lan. £4.50-£1 3. Re- 
gent Street (01242-572573) 


Exhibitions Classical 


EVENTS 


w cats Lloyd Webber’s musical 
version of TS EHofs poems. New 
London Parker Street, WC2 (0171- 
405 0072/CC 0171-404 4079) © 
Covent Garden/Holbom. Mon-Sat 
7.45pm. [31[7] 3pm. £12.50-£35. 
165 mins. 


v WEST SIDE STORY Brand new 
production of Bernstein’s classic 
musical Prince Edward Old Comp- 
ton Street. Wl (0171-447 5400) © 
Lek: Sq/Tbtt Ct Rd. Mon-Sat 7.45pm. 
[SJP] 3pm, £15- £35. 160 mins. 


EASTBOURNE 

DEVONSHIRE PARK THEATRE Gn- 
derella Eastbourne’s Christmas 

faerf^ar rrn g Wing? and Rr anhpt and 
Wendy Craig. Mon -Wed 2.30pm & 
7.30pm. Thur 3pm. ends 9 Jan. E7- 
£11. cones available. Compton 
Street (01323-412000) 


ABERYSTWYTH 
ABERYSTWYTH ARTS CENTRE 
Here To Stay: Arts Council Col- 
lection Purchases OF The 1990s 
Contemporary art inspired by do- 
mesticity and everyday objects. Mon- 
Sat 9am-5pm (phone for Christmas 
opening), ends 30 Jan. free. Penglais 
(01970-623232) 


ABERYSTWYTH 

LONDON CHRISTMAS CRAFT FAIR Design 

BARBICAN HALL New Queen’s andcraftfair giving test-minute gat 
Hall Orchestra/Moirls Muse by irrairatfon- Aberystwyth Arts 
Richani Strauss including Fbur last o^ Penglals (01970-623232) Mon- 


Soags. Tonight 7.30pm. £7-£27- Bar- 
bican Centre. EC2 (0171-638 8891) 
© Moorgate/Barblcan. 


Sat 10am-8pm, Sun 11am-5pm. 23 
Dec I0am-2pm, ends 23 Dec, free. 


CHRIST CHURCH Michael Chance SPSSrrrHAMENGEigsato- 
SkkmuI wtKmn for rraintprtpnnr THE GREAT CHALLENGE 1SSB ln- 


5.30pm The Prince of Egypt 
11.40am. 2pm 4.20pm. 6.30pm. 
8.50pm Rush Hour 1.30pm. 
3.50pm, 6.20pm. 8.40pm 


TURNPIKE LANE 
CORONET (0181-888 2519} 
-O- Turnpike Lane Babe: Pig In The 
City 1 .50pm. 3.45pm The Mask OF 
Zorro 2pm. 5.15pm. 8.10pm The 
Prince of Egypt 1.30pm. 4pm. 
6.20pm. 8.35pm Rush Hour 
6.30pm, 8.45pm 


O CHICAGO Maria Friedman and 
Peter Davison star in this hit Broad- 
way musical about two murderous 
women and their nightclub act Arfei- 
phl Malden Lane. WC2 (0171-344 


O WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND 

Uoyd Webber’s new musical based 
on the film of the same name. Ald- 
wych Aldwych, WC2 (0171-416 
6000/cc 0171-836 2428) © HoN 
bom. Mon-Sat 7.45pm, [5] [7] 3pm, 
£10- £32. 50. 120 mins. 


NORWICH 

MADDERMARKET THEATRE The 
Wind In The Willows Alan Bennett’s 
adaptation of the Kenneth Grahame 
riverHfe novel Mon-Wed 7.30pm. 
ends 2 Jan. £4-£6.50. 5t. Johns Al- 
ley (01603-620917) 


BEXHILL 

DE LA WARR PAVILION Picasso: 
Late Etchings TWo series of etchings 
made in 1968 and 1969. Mon-Sun 
1 0am-6pm, dosed 25 Dec. ends 3 
Jan. free. (01424-787949) 


Seasonal settings for countertenor # 

voice. Ton(ght6.30pm. E4-E14. temational poiiOcalcartoon tahifa- t 


voice. Tonight 6.30pm. E4-E14. 
Commercial Street, El (0171-377 
1362) © AMgate/AMgate East. 


0055) O Charing X. Mon-Sat 8pm. 
[4] [7] 3pm, E16-E36 (Inc booking 
fee). 130 mins. 


KJLBURN 

TRICYCLE THEATRE (0171-328 
1000) O KJlburn Dancing at 
Liighnasa 6.30pm Mulan1.30pm, 
4pm Out of 5ight 8.45pm 


KINGSTON 

ABC OPTIONS (0870-9020409) 
BR; Kingston Antz 6.10pm Babe: 
Pig in the Qty 1.10pm. 3.25pm The 
Rirent Trap 2pm. 5. 10pm. 8pm The 

Prince of Egypt 1.10pm, 3.40pm. 

6pm, 8.30pm Rush Hour 8.30pm 


UXBRIDGE 

ODEON (08705 050007) 

O’ Uxbridge Babe: Pig in The City 
1 1 .45am Dr Doll trie 1 1 .30am The 
Mask of Zorro 1.55pm. 5.05pm. 
8.05pm The Prince of Egypt 
1.20pm. 4pm. 6.35pm. 8.50pm 


* CINDERELLA Angela Carter’s 
version of this fairytale is staged fay 
the flwinrww*! improbable Theatre, 
lyric Hammera i nltfi King Street. W6 
(0181-741 231 1)0 Hammersmith. 
Tonight 7pm, ends 9 Jan. E5-E18, 
cones £6.50. 


• THE WOMAN IN BLACK Su- 
san HHTs chilling ghost stay Fortune 
Russell Street. WC2 (0171-836 
22 38/cc 01 71 -344 4444) © Covent 
Garden/Holbom. Mon-Sat 8pm, [3] 
3pm. (7) 4pm, E8.50-E23.5O. 
110 mins. 


OXFORD 

PLAYHOUSE THEATRE Cinderella 
FhxnDy panto with plenty of songs 
auifiwiw pBTtirjpatifwrforthw 
ing spires. Mon & Tue 7pm, Wed & 
Thur 5.30pm, mats Mon-Thu 2pm. 
ends 17 Jan. £6-£16.50. Beau- 
mont Street (01865-798600) 


BRIGHTON 

BRIGHTON MUSEUM & ART 
GALLERY Maquettes Henry Moore 
Maquettes, working models and 

g raphiwiOTWKiti nn mmWng HMi wm. 

tenary of his birth. Moil Tue. Thur- 
Sat 10am-5pm. Sun 2pm-5pm 
(phone for Christmas opening) . 
ends 10 Jan. free. Church Street 
(01273-290900) 


ST JOHN'S. SMITH SQUARE Tallis 
Scholars Seasonal settings ty Thomas 
ThiEs and others. Tonight 7.30pm. 
£1 0-E30. Smith Square. SWl <0171- 
222 1 061 ) © Westminster. 


tiom, in aid of Amnesty International, 
Index on Censorship and the Cartoon 
Art Trust The Gallery Oxo Tower 
Wharf ground floor Bargehouse 
Street SE1 (0171-928 6193) Tube: 
Waterloo. Mon-Sun 10am-6pm, 
ends 23 Dec. free (donations wel- 
comed). 


QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL Christ- 
mas Carols far Choir and Audience 
With the City of London Choir. 
Tonight 7.45pm. E8.50-E17.50. 
South Bank Centre. SE1 (01 71 -960 
4242) ©/BR Waterloo. 


THEATRE 

BEYOND THE WEST END 


MUSWELLHILL 

ODEON (08705 050007) 0 High- 
gate Babe: Pig hi the Oty 1 2.20pm 
The Mask of Zorro 11.30am. 
2.30pm. 5.20pm. 8.20pm Out of 
Sight 8.25pm The Parent Trap 
1 2. 1 5pm, 3pm. 5.45pm The Prince 
of Egypt 11.55am. 2.05pm, 
4.30pm, 6.45pm. 9pm 


WALTHAMSTOW 

ABC (0870-9020424) O Waltham- 
stow Central Antz 6.50pm Babe: 
Pig In The Oty 2 .20pm, 4.40pm The 
Parent Trap 2pm. 5pm. 8pm The 
Prince Of Egypt 1.40pm, 4pm. 
6.20pm. 8.35pm 


• FAME THE MUSICAL High-oc- 
tane stage version of the TV series 
charting the highs and lows of a class 
of young showbiz hopefuls. Prince of 
Wales Coventry Street. Wl (0171- 
839 5972) ©Lefc Sq/Picc Ore. Mon- 
Thu 8pm. Fri 5.30pm Sr 8.30pm, Sat 
4pm 6 8pm, ends 16 Jan, E1S-E30. 


CHICKEN SHED THEATRE 
Gndenella In Boots Alternative 
and updated venioa of Cinders' clas- 
sic tale. Mon-Sat 7.30pm. ends 16 
Jan. £7-£ 1 1 . Chase Side. 
N14 (0181-292 9222) 0 South- 
gate/Cockfosters. 


READING 

THE HEXAGON The Wizard of Oz 
Michaels Stracban goes over the 
rainbow to Oz in search of the 
magical wizard. Mon-Wed 2pm & 
7pm. Thur 4.15pm. ends 10 Jan. 
£1 0.50-El 5. cones available. Queens 
Walk (0118-960 6060] 


BRISTOL 

ARNOLFINI Secret Victorians: 
Contemporary Art And A Nine- 
teenth Cenury Vision British and 
American artiste including Mat Ccril- 
ishaw and Helen Chadwick respond 
to the Victorian ora. Mon-Sat 10am- 
7pm. Sun 12noon-6pm (phone for 
Christmas opening), ends 31 Jan. 
free. Narrow Quay (01 17-929 9191) 


ROYAL ALBERT HALL King's 
College Chotr/Cleobury Joined by 
the Rmhannoniam seasonal settings 
and carols. Tonight 7.30pm. £7.50- 
£28.50. Kensington Gore, SW7 
(0171-589 8212) 0 High Street 
Kensington. 


TITANIC - OFFICIAL MOVIE TOUR: 
CHILDREN'S EVENT Themed ex- 
perience including many of the film's 
sets, props and costumes. Wembley 
Conference Centre Empire Way 
HA9 (0181-902 0902/900 1234) 0 
Wembley Park. Mon-Sun 10am- 
7pm. last admission 6pm. ends 17 
Jan, £12. child £8. 


WALTON ON THAMES 
THE SCREEN AT WALTON (01932- 
252825) BR: Walton on Thames The 
Mask of Zorro 5.25pm. 8.1 5pm The 


Parent Trap 2.40pm The Prince of 
Egypt 2pm, 4.30pm, 6.45pm, 
8.55pm 


O FILUMENA Judi Dench and 
Michael Pennington star in Timher- 
lake Wertenbaker's new translation 
of Eduardo, de Filippo’s play. Pic- 
cadilly Denman Street. Wl (01 71 - 
369 1 734) 0 Pkx<3rc- Tonight 8pm. 
ends 27 Feb, E12-E30. 120 mins. 


GATE THEATRE The Wolf Road 
Thle of Viking gods battling with all 
and sundry. Mon-Sat 7.30pm. ends 
16 Jan. £10. cones £6. Mon -all seats 
£6. Pembridge Road. Wl 1 (0171- 
229 0706) 0 Notting Hill Gate. 


SOUTHAMPTON 
MAYFLOWER THEATRE GoMBodts 
And The Three Bears Frank Bruno, 
Karl Howman and Emily Symons in 
this star-studded panto. Mon-Thur 
2pm fi 7pm, ends 1 4 Feb. £7.50- 
£17.50, cones available. Commer- 
cial Road (01703-711811) 


PECKHAM 

PREMIER (0181-235 3006) BR: 
Peckham Rye Babe: Pig in the City 
12.35pm. 2.30pm. 4.25pm. 6.25pm 
Blade 9.1 5pm The Mash of Zorro 
2.45pm. 5pm. 7.15pm. 9.30pm 
Mulan 12.45pm The Negotiator 
8.40pm The Parent Trap 1 2.20pm. 
3pm, 5.40pm. 8.20pm The Prince 
of Egypt 1pm. 3.30pm. 6pm, 
B.30pm 


WELL HALL 

CORONET [0181-850 3351} BR: 
Eltham The Parent Trap 2pm, 
5.10pm, 8.15pm The Prince of 
Egypt 1.30pm, 4pm. 6.20pm, 
8.35pm 


w GREASE Energetic stage version 
of the hit film about life in an Amer- 
ican high sebod. Cambridge Eariham 
Street. W02 (0171-494 5080) 
-e-Cowent Garden. Mon-Sat 7.30pm. 
I4||7J 3pm. E10-E30. 150 mins. 


RICHMOND THEATRE Jack And 
The Beanstalk Toyah Wiflcox. Mark 
Curry and Vicki Michelle join the 
stars of Rainbow. Today 2pm & 
7pm. ends 30 Jan. £8-£15. cones 
available. The Green. Richmond. 
Surrey (0181-940 0088) ^ Rich- 
mond. 


NUFFTELD THEATRE Alice In Won- 
derland Join Alice on a trip to the top- 
sy turvy world of Wonderland and 
meet the White Rabbit, Mad Hatter 
and many more. Mon-Wed 2 .30pm. 
ends 16 Jan. E5.95-E12.50. cones 
available. University Road (01703- 
671771) 


LONDON 

COURTAULD GALLERY, COUR- 
TAULD INSTITUTE Material Evi- 
dence: Drawings From The 
Courtauld Collection Including 
work by Constable, Rubens and Ifan 
Gogh. Mon-Sat 10am-6pm. Sun & 
Bank Hots 12noon-6pm (last adm. 
5.15pm) (phone far Christmas open- 
ing). ends 24 Jan. £4, cones £2. free 
10am-2pm Mon (to gallery). Som- 
erset House. Strand. WC2 (01 71 -873 
2526) O Embankment. 


WIGMORE HALL Lynn Harrell The 
cellist in recital. Today 1pm. £7. 
Kathryn Price CeDo recital including 
Cesar Franck’s Sonata. Tonight 
7.30pm. £7-£1 4. IMgmcre Street. Wl 
(0171-935 2141) 0 Bond Street 


MUSIC 

pop 


OPERA 


CARDIFF 

MANIC STREET PREACHERS. 
CATATONIA The passionate Welsh- 
men bash out tracts from This is My 
Truth, ThUMe Yours, with Cerys and 
the boys in support. Cardiff Inter- 
national Arena Mary Ann Street. 
Butetown (01 222-224488) lbnight 
7pm. £17.50. 


PURLEY 

ABC (0870-9020407) BR: Purley 
Babe. Pig In the Oty 2.10pm. 
4.10pm The Parent Trap 2.05pm. 
5.05pm. 8.05pm The Prince of 
Egypt 1 ,30pm. 3.50pm. 6.Q5pm. 
8.25pm Rush Hour 6.20pm. 
8.35pm 


WIMBLEDON 

ODEON (08705 050007) BR/e 
Wimbledon/O South Wimbledon 
Ana 12.1 5pm Babe: Pig In the Oty 
11.50am, 1.50pm, 3.50pm The 
Mask of Zorro 11. 45am. 2.30pm, 
5.20pm, 8.15pm Out Of Sight 
5.55pm. 8.30pm The Parent Trap 
12.25pm. 3pm. 5.45pm The Prince 
of Egypt 11.30am. 1.50pm. 
4.10pm. 6.30pm. 8.45pm Ronin 
8.30pm Rush Hour 2pm. 4.10pm, 
6.30pm, 8.50pm 


• AN IDEAL HUSBAND Christo- 
pher Cazenove and Susannah Ybrk 
m I^ter Hall's acclaimed production 
of Wilde's comedy. Lyric Shaftesbury 
Avenue. Wl* (01 71-494 5045J 
0 Plcc Qrc. Mon-Sat 7.45pm, [4] 
3pm, [7J 4pm. £8.50-£29.50. 165 
mins. 


THEATRE ROYAL STRATFORD 
EAST Onderdia Follow Cinderella's 
transformation from ragged servant 
to glittering princess. Mon -Thu 
2.1 5pm & 7.15pm. ends 23 Jan. £5- 
£15. Gerry Raffles Square. El 5 
(0181-534 0310) 0 Stratford. 


PUTNEY 

ABC (0870 9020401) 0 Putney 
Bridge/BR- Putney. Antz 6pm Babe: 
Pig in die Qty 1 .1 5pm, 3.30pm Out 
of Sight 8. 1 5pm The Parent Trap 
2.15pm. 5.15pm. 8.15pm The 
Prince of Egypt 1.10pm. 3.45pm. 
6.15pm. 8.45pm 


WOOD GREEN 

NEW CURZON (01 81 -347 6664) 0 
Turnpike Lane Fire 6pm Kuch Kuch 
Hota Hal 2.30pm 


•AN INSPECTOR CAULS Stephen 
Dakhy’5 widely -acclaimed produc- 
tion of JB Priestley’s thriUeE Garrick 
Charing Cross Road. WC2 (0171-494 
5085) 0 Lek. Sq. Mon-Fri 7.45pm, 
Sat 8.15pm, [4] 2.30pm. (7| 5pm. 
£10.50-£25. 110 mins. 


RICHMOND 

ODEON (08705 050007) BIVQ 
Richmond The Mask oF Zorro 
2.10pm. 5.40pm. 8.40pm The 
Prince Of Egypt 1.10pm. 3.40pm, 
6.20pm. 9pm Rush Hour 1.40pm. 
4pm. 6.50pm, 9.20pm 


WOODFORD 

ABC (0181-989 3463) 0 South 
Woodford Antz 6.20pm Babe: Pig 
in the Qty 1.30pm, 3.50pm Lock, 
Stock & Two Smoking Barrels 
8.25pm The Parent 1Yap 2.10pm, 
5.20pm. 8.05pm The Prince of 
Egypt 1.25pm. 4pm. 6.20pm. 
8.35pm 


O INTO THE WOODS Sondheim 
and Lapine's acclaimed musical 
based on fairytales. Donmar Ware- 
house Eariham Street. WC2 (0171- 
369 1732) Q Covent Garden. 
Mon-Sar 7.30pm, (41(71 2.30pm, 
E15-E27.50. 


WIMBLEDON THEATRE 

Cinderella An all-star cast in this 
year’s panto extravaganza - Britt 
Ekiand, Bradley Walsh, Kriss At 
abusi, Gary BusfaeQ and Generation 
Game's Melanie Stace. Mon-Wed 
7pm, mats Mon-Thur 2pm. ends 31 
Jan. E9-E16.50. cones available. 
The Broadway. SWl 9 (0181-540 
0362) 0 Wimbledon. 


STRATFORD-UPON-AVON 
ROYAL SHAKESPEARE THEATRE 
The Winter’s file Seasonal tale of 
obsessive jealoasy directed by 
Gregory Doran. In rep tonight, 
7.30pm. ends 26 Feb. E7-E30. Wa- 
terside (01789-295623) 

SWAN THEATRE A Month In The 
Country Brian Friel’s adaptation of 
Hngenev's portrait of afl-consuming 
sexual desire. Michael Attenbor- 
ough directs. In rep tonight. 7.30pm. 
ends 20 Feb. E5-E30. waterside 
(01789-295623) 


DESIGN MUSEUM The Work Of 
Charles And Ray Eames Over 500 
objects fay the leading 20th century 
design team. Mon-Fri 11.30am- 
6pm, Sat & Sun 1 2noon-6pm (phone 
for Christmas opening), ends 3 Jan. 
£5.25. cones £4, family £12 (to mu- 
seum). Shad Thames. SE1 (0171- 
378 6055) 0 Tower HIU/DLR: Tower 
Gateway. 


LONDON 

QUEEN’S THEATRE The Pirates of 
Penzance New ITOyly Carte Opera 
production of Gilbert and Sullivan di- 
rected by Stuart Maunden Tonight 
7.30pm. £15.50- £29.50. Shaftes- 
bury Avenue. Wl (0171-494 5040) 
0 PtccadiUy Circus. 


EASTLEIGH 

MARSHAL PEANUT Funky ska. 
Charlie Writer* Upper Market Street 
(01703-641503) Tonight 8pm. 
phone far prices. 


FARNHAM 

THE HAMSTERS Southend’s 


SADLERS WELLS The Bartered 
Bride Smetana's classic opera in a 
new Royal Opera staging directed by 
Francesca Zambeflo. Tonight 7pm. 
£10-£60. Rosebery Avenue, EC1 
(0171-863 8000) ©Angel. 


TOE HAMSTERS Southend’s hards ' 

gjggu^Hendrik'inspredbluefHTK^y 


era. The Mailings George Square 
(01252-726234) Tonight 8pm. £6. 
cones £5. 


ODEON STUDIO (08705 050007) 
BR/ 1 © Richmond Antz 1.30pm. 
3.40pm Babe: Pig In the City 
1.30pm, 3.40pm Dandng At Lugh- 
nasa 7pm. 9.20pm Mulan 1.20pm 
The Negotiator 8.40pm Out of 
Sight 3. 1 0pm, 6pm. 9pm The Par- 
ent Trap 12.30pm. 3.10pm. 5.50pm 
Room 8.50pm 


WOOLWICH 

CORONET (0181-854 5043) BR: 
Woolwich Arsenal Babe: Pig in the 
Qty 1 ,50pm, 3. 45pm The Prince of 
Egypt 1.30pm. 4pm. 6.20pm. 
8.35pm Rush Hour 6.30pm. 
8.45pm 


W THE INVENTION OF LOVE 

Tom Stoppard's play about the life of 
poet A E Houseman, author of 77ie 
Shropshire Lad. Theatre Royal. 
Haymarket Haymarket. SWl (0171- 
930 8800) © Picc CTrc. Tue-Sat 
7.30pm. [4]I7| 2.30pm. £10- 
£32.50. 


YOUNG VIC Arabian Nights Col- 
lection of magical Eastern tales 
adapted for the stage by Dominic 
Cooke. Mon -Wed 7pm. mats Mon. 
Wed & Thur 2.30pm. ends 23 Jan. 
£7-£t8. The Cut. SET (0171-928 
6363) BR/© Waterloo. 


SWANSEA 

GRAND THEATRE Cinderella 
Melinda Messenger and Steven 
Houghton star as Cinderella and 
Prince Charming. Mon-wed 2.15pm 
& 7.15pm. ends 31 Jan. £6. 50- 
El 2.75. cones available. Singleton 
Street (01792-475715) 


ICA GALLERY Die Ybung Stay 
Pretty Sculpture, collage, paintings 
and cut outs by eleven youn. romantic 
artists. Mon-Sun 12noon-7.30pm 
(phone for Christmas opening), 
ends 10 Jan. £1 .50 day m'ship, £1 
cone Sac-Sun £2.50, £1.50 cone 
The Mall. SWl (0171-930 3647) 
© Charing Cross. 


Dance 


LONDON 

JESUS UNDERGROUND, FERQX. 
HUMAN ODDITIES Hardcore jazzy 
punk from the Czech Reoublic. Bull 
& Gate Kentish Town Road NW5 
(0171-485 5358} © Kentish Town. 
Tonight 8.30pm, £4. cones £3.50. 


CARDIFF 

ST DAVID'S HALL Moscow Oty 
Ballet The Nutcracker ’MiaGajvsky’-s 
festive ballet for all the fiunifc Today 
2.30pm & 7.30pm. £19. 50- £2 6.50. 
The Hayes (01222-878444) 


CARLEEN ANDER50N Soul 
c faanteuse sings her diverse resume. 
Jazz Cafe Rjrkway NW1 (0171^)6 
6060) © Camden Town. TodL.it 
8.30pm. £15-£ 18. 


Theatre 

Countrywide 


WINDSOR 

THEATRE ROYAL Puss In Boots 
Genial weatherman Ian McCaskiH is 
joined by panto veterans Rod Hull 
and Emu. Mon -Wed 7.30pm, mats 
Mon-Thu 2.30pm. ends 16 Jan. 
E6.50-E23. cones available. Thames 
Street (01753-853888) 


NATIONAL GALLERY Luca Sig- 
norelli In British Collections Draw- 

iniuflziced Raphael and Michelan- 
gelo. Mon & Tue. Thur-Sat 10am- 
6pm, Wed I0am-8pm. Sun 
l2noon-6pm (dosed 24-26 Dec), 
ends 31 Jan. free. Trafalgar Square. 
WC2 (0171-747 2885) © Charing 
Cross. Leicester Square. 


ROMFORD 

ABC (0870-9020419) BR: Romford 
Babe: Pig in the City 1.10pm. 
3.30pm, 6.10pm The Parent 
Trap 2.20pm. 5.20pm. 8.10pm 
The Prince Of Egypt 1.20pm. 
3.40pm. 6pm, 8.20pm Rush Hour 
8.35pm 


Cinema 

Repertory 


• LOVE UPON THE THRONE 

Tasteful look at the Charles and 
Diana marriage. Comedy Pan ton 
Street. SWl (0171-369 1731) 
© Picc Orc/Leic Sq. Mon-Sat 8pm. 
(4J17J 3pm. ends 31 Jan, £6>£25. 


ODEON LIBERTY 2 (08705 
050007) BR: Romford Antz 
1 2.40pm. 2.40pm. 4.40pm. 6.50pm 
Babe: Ptg hi the City 11.30am. 
1.50pm, 4.10pm. 6.40pm. 8.50pm 
Blade 8.40pm Dr Dolittle 10.20am 
Ever After i0.20am Godzilla 
10.20am Good Burger 10.20am 
The Mask or Zorro 1 1am. 2pm. 
5.05pm, 8pm Mjlan 1. 15pm, 
3.30pm Out of Sight 5.45pm, 
8.20pm The Parent Trap 12.05pm, 
2.50pm, 5.35pm. 8.15pm The 
Prince of Egypt 1 1.45am. 2.10pm, 
4.35pm. 6.50pm, 9pm Rush Hour 
1.30pm. 4pm. 6.30pm. 8.30pm, 
9pm Small Soldiers 1 2.30pm, 3pm. 
5.30pm 


LONDON 

NFT South Bank SET (0171-928 
3232) Love and Death on Long is- 
land (15) 8.45pm The Avengers 
(1 2) 2 .30pm. 6.30pm Raging Bui) 
(18) 8.30pm Jeannie (NC) 6.15pm 


W LES miserables Musical 
dramatisation of Victor Hugo's mas- 
terpiece. Palace Shaftesbury Arenue. 
Wl (0171-434 0909) © Picc Clrc. 
Mon-Sat 7.30pm. [5)17) 2.30pm. 
£7-£35. 195 mins. 


BEXHILL 

DE LA WARR RAVUJON Dick 
Whittington Arthur Boatrom and ex- 
Eastender Pete Beale star Mon -Wed 
7pm. mats Mon-Thur 2pm, ends 2 
Jan. E5.S0-E7.50. cones available. 
(01424-787949) 


WORTHING 

RAVUJON THEATRE Peter Pan 
Gladiator Rebel stars in the tale of 
the bqy from Never-never land. Mon- 
Wed 7pm, Thu 5pm. mats Mon-Thu 
2pm. ends 3 Jan. £4.95-£9.90. 
Marine Parade (01903-820500) , 


NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY 
British Sporting Heroes Tracing 
sport in British culture from the 
18th century to the present Mon-Sac 
1 0am- 6pm. Sun 12noon-6pm, 
(closed 24-26 Dec. Jan 1) ends 24 
Jan. £4. cones E3. St. Martins Place. 
WC2 (0171-306 0055] © Charing 
CrosaAeicester Square. 


LONDON 

LONDON COLISEUM English Na- 
tional Ballet: The Nutcracker 
Derek Deane's staging of favourite 
with Tchaikovsky ’s familiar score lb- 
day 2.30pm ( Ponomarenko/ Ar- 
mand/Mcllroy) fi tonight 7.30pm 
(Oaks/Edur/Klimenrova). £2.50- 
£39.50. St. Martin's Lane. WC2 
(0171-632 8300) © Leicester 
Square/Charing Cross. 


CULTURE CLUB, HUMAN LEAGUE, 
ABC The all star Line-up headed by 
George's soul pop phenomenon par- 
ties back to the 1980s. London Are- 
na Limeharbour. Isle of Dogs El 4 
(0171-538 1212) DUL- Cross Har- 
bour. Tonight 7pm. £25. 


LES HOMME5 QUI ADORENT LES 


FEMMES Organ wielding avant- 
popstera.Pio Na Na Upper Street Nl 


popsters. Pt> Na Na Upper Street Nl 
(0171-359 6191) ©Highbury & Is- 
lington. Tonight 8pm. £5. 


COMEDY 


PRINCE CHARLES Leicester Place 
WC2 (0171-437 8181) Funny 
Games (18) 3.45pm Sliding Doors 
(15) 6.30pm The Big LebowskJ 
(18) 9pm Lolita (18) 1pm 


u- MISS SAIGON Musical which 
resets the iVfadam Butterfly tragedy 
to Vietnam. Theatre Royal, Drury 
Lane Catherine Street. WC2 (01 71 - 
494 5060) © Covent Garden. Mon- 
Sat 7.45pm. [4J|7J 3pm. £5.75-£35. 
165 mins. 


BRIGHTON 

THEATRE ROYAL Mother Goose 
Christopher Biggins is Mother Goose. 
Today 2.30pm. ends 9 Jan. £7.50- 
£1 2.50. cones available Bond Street 
(01273-328488) 


CONNAUGHT THEATRE Aladdin 
Ex-Big Breakfast star Mark Little 
goes up the Beanstalk with Linda 
Nolan, Mon -Wed 7pm. Thu 5. 30pm. 
Mon-Thu 2pm. ends 10 Jan. E8- 
£1 1 .50. cones available. Union Place 
(01903-235333) 


ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS Ufa? 
Or Theatre?: The Work Of Char- 
lotte Salomon Powerful paintings 
made between 1940 and 1942. Mon- 
Thu. Sat fi Sun I Oam -6 pm, Fri 
10am-8.30pm. ends 17 Jan (closed 
25 Dec). £5.50. UBflO/OAP E4 50. 
NUS £4. child 12-18 £2.50. child 8- 
11 £1. Burlington House. Piccadil- 
ly. WT (0171-300 8000/ce 413 
1717) ©Green Park. 


LONDON 

JUUAN BARRATT & NOEL FIELD- 
ING - THE MIGHTY BOOSH AT 
HEN AND CHICKENS The stars of 
Channel 4's Gas in their Ffem'er 
Best Newcomer award winning show 
Mon 8pm, ends 1 1 Jan. St Paul's 
Road. Nl (0171-704 2001) 
© Highbury fi Islington. £5. 


JOOLS HOLLAND AND HIS 
RHYTHM AND BLUES ORCHES- 
TRA Boogie-woogie revivalist at the 
helm of his R&B big bond. Shep- 
herd’s Bush Empire S hep herd 
Bush Green Wl 2 (0171-771 20<lp/ 
© Shepherd's Bush. Tonight 7pm. 
El 7.50. * ^ 


BRISTOL 

CUBE (0114-907 4191) Antz (PG) 
4pm Out of Sight (I5| 7pm. 9.30pm 


w THE MOUSETRAP Agatha 
Christie's whodunnit. Sc Martin's 


GARDNER ARTS CENTRE The 
Wind in The Willows Kenneth Gra- 
bame’s enchanting tale of rivertife is 
adapted for the stage. Mon-Wed 
6.30pm. mats Mon-Thur 2.30pm. 
ends 2 Jan. E6.96-E8.95. cones avail- 
able. University of Sussex. Lewes 
Road (01273-685861) 


Literature 


CAMBRIDGE 

NIG ELLA LAWSON - HOW TO 
EAT NigeDa tads about her new book. 
Waters tone’s Bookshop Bridge 
Street (01223-300123) Tpnight 
6.30pm. £3, £2 adv. 


ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL BALL- 
ROOM Duane Hanson Life-like 
models of poeple displayed in toe pub- 
lic spaces. Mem-Sun IOam-1 Ipmm. 
(closed 25 Dec), ends 17 Jan. free 
South Bank Centre. 5E1 (01 71-960 
4242) ©Waterloo. 


THE COMEDY STORE An Esseonas 
Special with Aian Davies. Terry Aktetv 
ton, Ricty Grovec Mnmfr Knight, 
John Mann, Keith Dover. Tonight 
8pm. Oxendon Street SWl (01426- 
914433) © Piccadilly Grcus. £12. 


DURAN DURAN Hits tour for the 
dasac 1980s pop heart-throbs with 
an album package. Greatest, to bad: 
it up. Wembley Arena Empire Way. 
Wembley (0181 -902 0902) 0 Wem- 
bley Park. Tonight 7pm. £20. 


WATERSHED (0117-925 3845) 
Dancing at Lugh nasa (PG) 3pm, 
8.30pm Elizabeth (IS) 6pm 
Henry Fool (18) 8.40pm If Only 
(IS) 8.40pm 


Wfest Street WG (0171 -836 1 44 3) 
© Leic Sq. Mon-Sac 8pm. [3J 
2.45pm. [7J 5pm. E10-E24.50. 
135 mins. 


O THE PHANTOM OF THE 

OPERA Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 


BRISTOL 

THEATRE ROYAL Mother Goose 
Rinto extravaganza about the fabled 
fowl. Mon-Wed 7.15pm. mat21 Dec. 
2. T 5pm. ends 30 Jan. £3-£ 1 6. King 
Street (0117-987 7817) 


Gothic musical. Her Majesty's Hay- 
market. SWl (0171-494 5400/cc 
01 71 -344 4444) 0 Picc Ore. TcxJay 
3pm & 7.45pm. E10-E35. 
150 mins. 


SIDCUP 

ABC (0541-555131) BR: Sidcup 
Antz 6. 1 0pm Babe: Pig in the City 
1,30pm. 4pm Elizabeth 8. 15pm The 
Prince of Egypt 1 . 1 5pm. 3.45pm, 
6.15pm, 8.45pm 


CAMBRIDGE 

ARTS CINEMA |01 223-504444) 
Elizabeth (15) 4.30pm. 9.l5pm 
It’s a Wonderful Life (U) 2pm, 
6.50pm 


STAPLES CORNER 
VIRGIN (0870-9070717) BR: 
Crlcklewood Antz 12.15pm. 
2.15pm. 4.30pm. 6.45pm Babe: 
Pig In the City 1.30pm. 3.50pm. 
6.2Qpm Blade 8.45pm The 
Mask of Zorro l2noon, 3pm, 
6pm. 9pm Out of Sight 9pm The 
Parent Trap 1 2.45pm, 3.30pm. 
6.20pm The Prince of Egypt 
12.30pm. 2.30pm. 4.30pm, 

6.30pm, 8.30pm Rush Hour 
1 2 noon, 2,1 5pm, 4,30pm. 6.50pm, 
9.20pm 


CA RDIFF 

CHAPTER ARTS CENTRE (01222- 
399666) Insomnia (18) 7.30pm 
Snake Eyes (15) 8pm 


heme and set in modem day New 
York. Shaftesbury Shaftesbury Av- 
enue, wa (07000-211221) ©Hbl* 
bom/Tatt Q Rd. Mon-Sat 7.30pm, 
(4|[7) 3pm. E12.50-E32.50. 160 
mins. 


CAMBRIDGE 

CORN EXCHANGE Snow White and 
the Seven Dwarfs With Coronation 
Street's Beverly CaQard and Nick 
Cochrane. Mon-Wed 7pm, Thu 
5.30pm. mats Mon-Thu 2pm. ends 
10 Jan. £5-£l4. Wheeler Street 
(01223-357851). 


LONDON 

A RUCTION FOR PJ live music and 
poetry in the memory of P J FYihy. 
Bread 6 Roses Clapham Manor 
Street SW4 (0171-498 1779) 
© Clapham NorttVCIopham Com- 
mon. tonight 8pm. £3. 


SERPENTINE GALLERY Louise 
Bourgeois Sculpture and installation 
by the major French artist Mon-Sun 
10am-6pm. dosed Thur 2 4 -Sun 27 
Dec. ends 10 Jan. free. Kensington 
Gardens. W2 3 (0171-402 6075) 
© South Kensuigton/Lmcaste' Gate. 


COMEDY CAFE Satirical Scouser 
Steve Gribbin, king of the surreal one- 
liners Milton Jones, MC Martin 
Davies. Tonight 8pm. Rivington 
Street. EC2 (0171-739 5706) ©Old 
Street, phone for availability. 


PLYMOUTH 

ROOTJOOSE West Country rock 
from the surfer- friendly popsters. 
The Cooperage Vauxhall Street, The 
Barbican (01752-229275) Tonight 
8pm, phone for prices. 


CHICHESTER 

NEW R\RK FILM CENTRE (01243- 
786650) Babe: Ptg in the City (U) 
1.30pm Elizabeth (15) 8.45pm Ever 
After (PG) 6pm Mulan (U) 3.45pm 


NORWICH 

CINEMA CITY (01603-622047) Dr 
Dolittle (PG) 2.30pm It's a 
Wonderful life (U) 8.1 5pm There's 
Something About Mary (15) 
5.45pm 


ROYAL NATIONAL THEATRE 
w OLIVIER: Peter ftin Stephen 

Oliver's muse accompanies the tale 
of the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up, 
with Michael Bryant as the Story- 
teller In rep tonight 7.15pm. 


CARDIFF 

NEW THEATRE The Adventures OF 
Robinson Crusoe David Essex stars 
in this swashbuckling adventure. 
A/Ion-Wed 7pm. Thur 5pm, mats 
Mon-Thur 2.30pm. ends 1 7 Jan. £7- 
£13-50. cones available. Park Place 
(01222-878889) 


BOOKBINDING 1998 On display 
are examples from the 1998 Book- 
binding Competition. Also on display 

wifi be the short-listed novels for the 
1998 Boater Prize for Fiction. British 
Library Foyer Eiraron Square NWi 
(0171-412 7760) © Euston/KIngs 
Cross. Mon, Wed-Fri 9.30am-6pm. 
Tue9.30am-8pm. Sat 9.30am-5pm. , 
Sun llam-5pm, free. 


TATE GALLERY John Singer Sar- 
gent Comprehensive exhibition de- 
voted to the paintings or the 1 9th 
century artist. Mon-Sun 10am- 
5.40pm (dosed 24-26 Dec), ends 
17 Jan. £6. cones £4. 

In Celebration: The Art Or The 
Country House Including work bv 
tianaietto, Stubbs and Holbein. Mon- 
Sun I Oam- 5. 50 pm (dosed 24-26 
Dec), ends Feb 28. free. Milibank 
SWl (0171-887 8000) ©Pimlico.' 


OXFORD 

THE COMEDY STAGE AT O.X. 
ONE Fbrmer Reeves and Mortimer 
sidekick Charlie Chuck, Pierre 
Hollins, surreal Wfelsh comic Noel 
James, Neil J. Arms. Tonight 8pm. 
New Road (01865-250099) £7. 


Music 

jazz, world, folk _ 

i 


CLUBS 


LONDON 

HAMISH STUART BAND Ever pop- 
ular soul-jazz vocalist and davmet 
player. 606 Club Lots Road SWIO 
(0171-352 5953) ©Fulham Broad- 
way/Earls Court. Tonight 9.30pm, 
Musk: charges £3.70 for members. 
£4.75 non-members. 


SCOTT HAMILTON QUARTET Laid 
back mainstream from celebrated 

BRIGHTON Jeow 3** smoothie. Pizza Express 

DISCO BABIE XMAS SPECIAL AT "P C,ut> De™ Street Wl (0171- 
THE HONEY CLUB Featuring Booeie 2 3 9 872 2 ) ° Tottenham Court 
Whnderiand, the ultimate disco band! Road ' 1 ® ni 8 ht 9 P m - £12.50. 
fonlght 1 0pm- 2, 30am. £3. mems £1 . RALPH MCTELL The on^rnet 

^fS^iSi 273 * 2028071 

NU5 free before 11pm. Purcell South Bank 

LONDON (0171-960 4342) Bty© Water 

CAUGHT IN A JAM AT THE WKD JOni0Xt 7 ' 30 P m ’ £, °' concs a 

^ BOB KERR * HIS WHOO! 
soul j^n wito plenty at guests. Tonight BAND - CHRISTMAS SHOW I 
9pm-2am. £3, free before 9pm. Ken- «wai antics from Spike Jones d< 
teh Town RokI. NWI (0171-267 lees. Pizza on the Pi 
1069) ©Camden Town. Knightsbridse SWl /0171-: 


TORR1ANO Poetry reading with 
Chris Emery. Leah Fritz and others, 
plus open mike. Global care 
Golden Square Wl (0171-287 2242) 
0 Piccadilly Cbr are. tonight 6.30pm. 
phone for prices. 


MAIDSTONE 

MAIDSTONE MUSEUM AND ART 
GALLERY The Disparates: Goya 
Late satirical etchings by the Span- 
fah master. Mon-Sat 10am-5. 1 5pm. 
Sun 1 lam -4 pm. closed Dec 25-27 
ends 3 Jan. phone for prices Sr 
Faith’s Street (01622-754497) 


v UTTTEUON: Betrayal Pinter’s 
defining work depicts a menage a 
trots and stars Imogen Stubbs and 
Douglas Hodge. In rep tonight 
7.30pm. 90 mins. 


SHERMAN THEATRE The Secret 
Seven Save The World New ad- 
venlure, courtesy of Enid Blyton, and 
set in 1999. Mort-Wed 7pm. mats 
Mon-Thur 2pm, ends 9 Jan. E6-E1 0, 
cones available. Senghenydd Road 
(01222-230451) 


DULQE GRAY The distinguished 
actress and writer talks to Sheridan 
Moriey about her life and work. 
National Theatre: Couesloe South 
Bank SET (0171-452 3000) BR/© 
Waterloo. Tonight 6pm. £3.50. 
cones £2.50. 


ST. IVES 

ST IVES TATE GALLERY Dlspiavs 

199^9: Partnerships and 


■ -rvraJV-l Bonn I 

(0171-960 4342) BR/© Waterloo. 
Tonight 7.30pm. £10. concs £8. 


Paintings and ceramics from Uie 
second half of the century. Mon-Sat 
1 'Mn-^pm.Sun Mam- 5pm (phone 

ca S e 7l n S | - ends 1 1 Apr. 

£3.50. concs £2. Forthmww Beach 
(01736-796226) 


- r — ipiTOVTC 

ca S e 7l n S | ' ends 1 1 Apr. 

?n 3 ,^ c ?2?-,S; Porthm «w Beath 


THAT'S HOW IT IS AT BAR RUM- 
lilies Peterson, James LareDe 
and Ben Wilcox chuck out rough 
i vm funk, jungle, jazzy East C oast 
mp hop and cool West Coast sounds 
Tomght 1 Q.30pm-3.30am. £5.' 
Shaftesbury Avenue, Wl (0171- 
287 2 7 1 5) © Piccadilly Circus. 


BOB KERR fi HIS WHOOPEE 

band - CHRISTMAS SHOW Sea- 
sonal antics from Spike Jones devo- 
lees. Pizza on the Park 
Kmghtsbridge SWl (0171-235 
5273) ©Hyde Park Comer. Tonight 
9.15pmfi 11.15pm. £18. £16adv. 


GEORGE MELLY AND JOHN 
CHILTON'S FEETWARMERS W 
unm showman and vocalist in 
far Christaens panto. Ronnie Scott’s 
Frith Street Wl (0171-439 0747) 
©Leicester Square, tonight 930pm. 
phone for details. 


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THE MONDAY REVIEW 

The Independent 21 December 1998 


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SATELLITE TV RADIO/15 


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MONDAY RADIO 





RADIO 1 

(976-9&8MHZ FM ) 
a& 30 Chris Moyles. 9.00 Simon 
^Mayo. 12 JJ 0 Kevin Greening. 

2.00 Mark Radclrffe. 4.00 Dave 
Pearca 8.00 Lamacq Live - the 
Christmas Party. 124)0 The 
Breezeblock. 2.00 Emma B. 4.00 
- g. 30 Scott Mills. 

RADIO 2 

(88-9&2MHZ FM ) 

64)0 Alex Lester. 730 Wake Up 
to Wogan. 930 Ken Bruce. 12.00 
Jimmy Ybung 2.00 Ed Stewart 
54)5 Johnnie Walker. 74)0 
Humphrey Lyttelton. 8.00 Big 
Band Christmas Special 8.30 
The New Jazz Standards. 930 
The Rock 'n' Roll Years. 10.30 
Richard Aflinson. 124)0 Katrina 
Leskanlcfi 34)0 - 4.00 Mo Dutta. 

RADIO 3 

(902-92AMHZ FM ) 

64)0 On Air. 

94)0 Masterworks. 

10.30 Artist of the Week. 

114K) Sound Stories. 

124)0 Composer of the Week: 
Georges Bizet 

1.00 The Radio 3 Lunchtime Con- 
cert 

2.00 The BBC Orchestras. 

44)0 Dival. 

4.45 Music to Die For. 

5.00 A Medieval Christmas. 

5.30 Music Rooms. 

6.00 - 6.01 Discovering Music 
with Leonard Slatkin. 

}7.00 Christmas Cocktails. See 
^ Pick of the Day. 

7.30 Performance on a Another 
chance to hear ten of the most 
memorable concerts of the 1998 
BBC Proms season at the Royal 
Albert Hall, London. Prom 54, giv- 
en at the end of August, con- 
tained a Proms first: Elgar's 
dramatic and expressive oratorio 
‘The Apostles', a broad musical 
canvas richly coloured by his 
imagination. The life of Christ is 
treated obliquely to focus on the 
consequences for his followers, 
and the work ends with a vision- 
ary meditation on the Ascension. 
BBC Symphony Chorus and Or- 
chestra/Andrew Davis. Elgar: The 
Apostles. Felicity Lott, soprano 
(Virgin), Catherine Wyn-Rogers, 

-jjsezzo (Mary Magdalene). (R) 

^.40 Postscript Comecfian and 
broadcaster Rainer Hersch pre- 


SKY PHEMER 

64)0 Supergai (1984) (5444H5Q) 8j05 Al 
Dogs Go to Heavao H (©98) (5945308a 
1060 The Withes (1990) (84808V 1260 
SupengirJ (©84) {92597571$ 24)5 Al Dogs 
Go to Heaven I (©90 (S49421) 44)0 H Be 
‘-tone for Christmas (1998) (1063) 660 The 
^Khes (©SO) (299951 060 Marvrts 
Ftocm (1996) (9ttl2) 104)0 Get Shorty 
(©95) (901537). 1145 Foxfire (©98) 
(218621) 135 Acted Lara (©95)(ttM7t) 
335 - 060 Cracterjack (©94) (2233C9Q) 

SKY MOVEMAX 

060 In Ybur Widest Dreams (©91) (86179). 
730 The Christmas Let (©97) (30727). 
930 Lovestruck (1996) (H995) tLOO 
Race against the Harvest (©87) (33995). 
160 The Christmas List (©97) (56781) 
360 In Vbur Widest Dreams (©91) 

(42088). 5j00 Ujvestruck (©96) (22570). 
760 Theodore Rex (©95) (15841). 94K) In 
the Bleak Mdwtnter (©96) (92B41) TUX) 
..-3^1 (©82) (94015). 1235 Kiss of a 
StraApr (S97) (545735) 240 Bad Medh 
ctoe (©85) (360193) 330 - 660 Antorafc 
Une (©94) 07333767) 

SKY CINEMA 

44)0 BreakfestatTiffenyS (©61) (W78179). 
060 Ryrig Leathernecks (1951) (9877341) 
060 How I Won the War (S67) (9889686). 
104M Under the Vblcano (©84) (4729599). 
1155 Brubaker (S80) (0034082) 265 
Sherlock Holmes: Pursuit to Algiers (1945) 
(19716990) 315 The Stars Look Down 
(S39) (6541938). 430 Closa 

F1LMFOUR 

660 Fried Green Tomatoes at the 
Whistle Stop Cafe (1991) (77766686). 

840 Life Is Sweet (1990) (59578179). 

See Pick of tha Day. 10-00 Naked (1993) 
(95189347). See Pick of the Day. 12.10 
■ zJfn (1988) (5794464). 135 Pimp Up 
the volume (1990) (2773938). 340 SFW 
(1995) (62989©). 465 - 060 The Fire- 
man's Bafl (1968) (4482464) 

DISCOVERY CHANNEL 

460 Rax Hmfe Fishing Adventures 
(B813402) 430 Wakfirfe World ps©680) 
560 Connections 2 by James Burke 
12279995). 530 Jtxassica (8833266) 060 
Animal Doctor (B830T79) 630 Wfeys of the 
WSd (2383792). 730 Beyond 2000 
18810315). 060 Wider Discovery: Tarantu- 
las and their Ifenomous nota tio ns (5513570). 
960 Lives of Fire: Consumed by Fire 
(5533334) 1060 Pedal tor the Planet 
(5538421) TLOO Wings (5864547) 1260 
Super Structures (1294735) 160 Correc- 
tions 2 by James BlhKs (9726025)130 
Ancient Whrriore (90729©) 260 Ctosa 


PICK OF THE Day 


A QUESTION that seems to vex 
people more than ever before 
is How to Be Happy (8pm IM, 
right*, though it's not clear if this 
means we are less happy than 
we used to be, or whether we 
just have raised expectations of 
happiness. Here, a number of 
people, including a Bosnian 
exile and a pair of piano tuners, 
talk about their own levels of 
happiness and ask whether it is 


to be found in our in work, music, 
chocolate or increased levels of 
serotonin in the brain. Perhaps 
some people are just born happy. 

A sure shortcut to happiness is 
Christmas Cocktails (7 pm R3>, 
a seasonal compDation of dance 
music of the Thirties and Fbities, 
tonight featuring the Dorsey 
Brothers, Chick Webb, Django 
Reinhardt and others. 

Robert hanks 








sects five personal and idiosyn- 
cratic studies of the music of our 
century. 1 : ‘The First Taboo’. Hold- 
ing the book upside down: the 
Second Viennese School and 
atonalrty. 

10.00 Voices. 'Christmas with 
Gerald Finley'. Gerald Finley intro- 
duces and sings his favourite 
Christmas songs in conversation 
with lain Burnside. Including music 
by Wolf, Grieg, Poulenc and Stern- 
dale-Bennett plus Irving Berlins 
‘White Christmas'. Gerald Finley 
(baritone). Julius Drake (piano) 

10.45 Mixing It. It was Terry Ri- 
ley's composition ‘In C' that 
brought minimalism to the main- 
stream. In the 34 years that fol- 
lowed. Riley has embraced - and 
been embraced by - a whole uni- 
verse of music. Tonight he joins 
Mark Russell and Mark Sandall in 
the studio to talk about three 
pieces that have made a big im- 
pact on him. 

H.30 Jazz Notes. 

12.00 Composer of the Week: 
Johann Sebastian Bach. (R) 

1.00 - 6.00 Through the Night 

RADIO 4 

(924-94£MHz FM ) 

6.00 Today. 

9.00 NEWS; Start the Week. 

9.30 Carols for Choirs. 

9.45 Serial: Scraps with lannucci. 
10410 NEWS; Woman Is Hour. 

11.00 NEWS; Snapshots from the 
New South Africa 

11.30 My Gaiety Girls. 

1260 NEWS; You and Yours. 
12.57 Weather. 

160 The World at Ona 


1.30 Top Brain 199& 

2.00 NEWS; The Archers. 

2.15 NEWS; Afternoon Piay: Mai- 
gret's Christmas. 

3.00 Money Box Live: 0171 580 
4444. 

330 Beating the System. 

3.45 Colonel Clay - Master of 
Disguisa 

4.00 NEWS; The Food Pro- 
gramme. 

4.30 Turning World. 

5.00 PM. 

5.57 Weather. 

660 Six OCIock News. 

6.30 I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clua 

7.00 NEWS; The Archers. 

7.15 Front Row. Francine Stock 
with the arts programme, includ- 
ing the hunt for the best Christ- 
mas single ever. 

7.45 Under One Roof. The first of 
three five-part dramatisations from 
the Michele Hanson stories With 
Janet Maw, Edna Dora and Luisa 
Bradshaw- White (1/5). 

860 NEWS; How to Be Happy. 

An excursion into positive thinking, 
led by Carole Rosen. With profes- 
sor of pharmacology Susan 
Greenfield, historian Theodore 
Zeldin, novelist Wendy Perriam, pi- 
ano tuners Hector and Janet Rug- 
gins and Ben Renshaw and his 
happiness project See Pick of the 
Day. 

8.30 Analysis 'Buy Now, Pay Lat- 
er.’ Andrew Dilnot asks how far we 
can really afford the debts we in- 
cur and whether we are storing up 
trouble for the future. 

9.00 NEWS; A Wolf to the North: 
Fear. Wildlife writer Jim Crumley 




travels north through Alaska in 
search of the Arctic wolf and all it 
symbolises. 

9.30 Start the week. Jeremy 
Paxman sets the cultural agenda 
for the week with guests including 
Professor Nancy Rothwell of Man- 
chester University's School of Bio- 
logical Sciences, who will be 
delivering this year's Royal Institu- 
tion Christmas Lectures. 

10.00 The World Tonight With 
Robin Lustig. 

10.45 Book at Bedtime; Chosen 
for Christmas. Five stars read their 
chosen seasonal tale. 1: Patricia 
Routledge reads 'Winter' from 
'Cider with Rosie' by Laurie Lee. 
1160 Radio 4 Appeal. The vicar 
of St Martin in the Reids speaks 
on behalf of St Martin in the 
Fields, a charity which helps the 
homeless and those in need 
throughout the British Isles. 

11.02 Fatherland. (R) 

11.30 Rebel Music. 

12.00 News. 

12.30 The Late Book: Out of Her 
Senses 

12.48 Shipping Forecast 

1.00 As World Service. 

5.30 World News. 

5.35 Shipping Forecast. 

5.40 Inshore Forecast. 

5.45 Prayer for the Day. 

5.47 - 660 Farming Today. 
RADIO 4 LW 

(198kHz ) 

9.45 - 1060 Daily Service. 

1260 - 1264 News Headlines; 
Shipping Forecast. 5.54 - 567 
Shipping Forecast 11.30 - 12.00 
Today in Parliament. 


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GARETH EDWARDS (right) is the 
scorer of perhaps the most 
famous try in rugby history - 
that titanic end-to-end effort 
(immortalised by Cliff Morgan’s 
commentary) for the Barbarians 
against the All Blacks in the 
1970s. But more than that, he 
was the dream scrum-half, able 
to pass, kick or run with equal 
facility. It is hard to think of a 
more complete rugby player 
in the game’s history. He is 
profiled tonight in Dickie Davies’ 


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CHESS 

JON SPEELMAN 


LAST MONDAY, I examined the 
rules regarding pawn promotion. 
This time it’s castling. In the ancient 
game of Shatraqj, a precursor of 
modern chess, the king moved as in 
our game, but there were no ex- 
tensions to its powers. These first 
appeared, possibly in the 13th 
century, in the form of a leap which 
could take the king from el to any 
of cl. c2, c3, d3. e3, £3. g3. g2, gl or 
even further; 

The modern idea of castling by 
moving a king and rook simultan- 
eously developed from this, initially 
with multiple variations - kingside 
castling could take the form of KQ 
and Rel, Kgl and Rel the present 
form of Kgl and Rfl, Khl and Rel 
etc, etc - and had stabilised by the 
17th century everywhere except in 
Italy, where “rogue forms” re- 
mained in use right up to the be- 
ginning of this century. 

The modern rule, which I shall 
paraphrase, is that the king moves 
two squares along a rank towards 
a rook, which then jumps over it 
landing on the square next to it. 

Both the king and the rook must 
be unmoved, and there must be no 
pieces between them; moreover; 
the rook must be on the first rank 
- problemists at one stage had fun 
with the idea of castling along the 
e file with a newly underpromoted 
pawn! Castling is illegal if the king 
is in check or has to move across, 
or to a square that is attacked; but 
you can castle after being in check 
(as long, of course, as you didn't 
parry it by moving the king). The 
rook can be attacked, or move over 
a square that is attacked. 


Such an unusual move leads to 
all sorts of effects and records, 
which are treated in detail in Start- 
ling Castling by Robert Timmen, 
published by B T Batsford last year. 
There are things like the latest 
known in a master game - be gives 
a couple on move 46, though I sub- 
sequently found an instance from 
the Hungarian Tteam Championship 
in 1993-4 where it was as late as 
move 49; and occasions when it has 
a particularly powerful effect such 
as the well known but vicious trap 
of White castling queenside with 
check simultaneously attacking a 
black rook on b2. 

1 recently fell vi ctim to a “startling 
castling" myself - though I had in 
fact foreseen it- in a splendid game 
that will no doubt appear in future 
editions. 19 O-OH was a tremendous 
blow; though Fd have had much bet- 
ter chances after 19... Rag8! 

White: Yasser Seirawan 
Black: 

Jon Speelman 
Elista Olympiad 1998 
Modem Defence 


1 d4g6 

15 NgS Qe7 

2e4Bg7 

16 Nxf? Kxf7 

3 c4 d6 

17 fxe4 Nxe4 

4NC3NC6 

18 Nxe4 Qxe4 

5 Be3 e5 

19 0-0!! Rhg8? 

6d5 Nce7 

20 Bh5+ Kffi 

7g4f5 

21 Rxf5+ Qxfo 

8f3 Nh6 

22 Bg5 Be5 

9Be2 Nf7 

23 Rfl Qxfl + 

10 b4 Ng8 

24 Kxfl Kg7 

11 exfS gxf5 

25 Be7 Kh8 

12 Qd2 Nf6 

26 Qh6 Bg7 

13 gxf5 Bxf5 

27 Qe6 Bxb2 

14 Nh3 e4 

28 Bf7 Rg3 1-0 


BRIDGE 

Alan Hiron 


South made a good start in his 
game contract on this deal and, 
indeed, achieved a winning end 
position. However, West found a 
deceptive defence and - now faced 
with a guess - declarer got it 
wrong. 

South opened One Heart and, 
after a pass by West North raised 
directly to game to end the auction. 
West led 0 Q against Bbur Hearts 
and it was immediately dear to 
declarer that the complete dupli- 
cation of the North-South distribu- 
tion would set problems. East 
overtook his partner’s ? Q. hoping 
to be left on lead to push a spade 
through, but South won, drew 
trumps in two rounds, cashed 
♦AK, and exited with 0 10. 

West won with his jack and con- 
tinued with ♦ J. East studies this 
for some while for, superficially at 
any rate, it looked best to overtake 
in order to lead a spade. But would 
that help? Certainly not as the 
cards lie, for South would play low 
and West would be end-played. 
Even if West's spades were as good 
as A Q x. there was no hurry, for 
West could get off lead safely with 
a low spade. 

Eventually East allowed his 
partner to hold the club trick 
(Lunatic or genius? As S J Simon 


East-West game: dealer Sooth 
North 

♦ J7 4 
TQJ854 
010 7 
+AKS 

West East 

♦ K Q 10 8 *652 


?96 
0K.654 
♦Q 9 3 2 


S?10 v9 1 

OQJ9S2 OK 

* J 10 6 *Q 

South 
♦ A 9 3 
?AK732 
CA 3 
*754 


once wrotet It looked fatal for the 
defence but West found the 
inspired exit of * 10! Now, from 
declarer’s point of view, this was 
just the card that he would have led 
from *Ql0 8x(x)or*Kl08xfx>. 
Hoping that the lead was from a 
five-card suit (when East would 
therefore have *K x or *Q xj, 
declarer played low from dummy 
and, after winning with his ace. 
got off lead with spade. Oh dear! 
East was not end-played at all, and 
West triumphantly took the next’ 
two tricks with *Qand *K... 


Concise crossword 


No.3799 Monday 21 December 

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